Description
Nore Robbins is not at all comfortable with the prospect of meeting her new stepmother, step-brother, and stepsister. To please her father, she has agreed to spend the summer with them on their Louisiana plantation. ‘When she arrives, Nore has to admit that her father has not exaggerated his new wife’s beauty-she looks almost mystically exotic and incredibly young for the mother of two teenagers. Nore also finds herself attracted to Lisette’s handsome son Gabe; even thirteen-year-old j25ie, with all her adolescent frustrations, has a certain amount of charm.
As time passes, however, Nore notices that there is something very odd about the entire family. Gabe, who at first seemed spontaneous and carefree, is prematurely bitter about life and strangely careless, almost to the point of being suicidal. And j25ie is not just a typical young teenager; the statements she makes in unguarded moments prove that she is wise beyond her years and truly anguished about something.
But it is their mother, with her haunting beauty and evil glare, who is the most eerie. Nore is convinced that Lisette considers her a threat to their world- a world that seems locked in time,
Set in the steamy South, Lois Duncan’s new suspense novel about an ancient family secret is guaranteed to make spines tingle.
Hardcover, 208 pages. In very good pre0loved condition with the exception of a handwritten name inside the front cover and on the first page.
