One summer night, a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to Arden, Wisconsin, in search of everything he has lost.
But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly . . .
"ELECTRIFYING." --STEPHEN KING
"COMPULSIVE READING . . . MARVELOUS ATMOSPHERE, SUSPENSE, AND A TRULY GRAND GUIGNOL ENDING." --DOROTHY EDEN Author of Sleep in the Woods
"STRAUB IS TERRIFYINGLY ACCOMPLISHED IN THE ART OF HORROR." --Entertainment Weekly
One summer night, a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to Arden, Wisconsin, in search of everything he has lost.
But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly . . .
Praise
"ELECTRIFYING." --STEPHEN KING
"COMPULSIVE READING . . . MARVELOUS ATMOSPHERE, SUSPENSE, AND A TRULY GRAND GUIGNOL ENDING." --DOROTHY EDEN Author of Sleep in the Woods
"STRAUB IS TERRIFYINGLY ACCOMPLISHED IN THE ART OF HORROR." --Entertainment Weekly
