A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a
teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction,
psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A
Head Full of Ghosts.
"A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I'm
pretty hard to scare," raved Stephen King about Paul Tremblay's previous
novel. Now, Tremblay returns with another disturbing tale sure to
unsettle readers.
Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news
that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished
without a trace in the woods of a local park.
The search isn't yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young
daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend Tommy's disappearance. Feeling
helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration:
the local and state police have uncovered no leads. Josh and Luis, the
friends who were the last to see Tommy before he vanished, may not be
telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when
they were supposedly hanging out a landmark the local teens have renamed
Devil's Rock.
Living in an all-too-real nightmare, riddled with worry, pain, and
guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events
that follow. She believes a ghostly shadow of Tommy materializes in her
bedroom, while Kate and other local residents claim to see a shadow
peering through their windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages
torn from Tommy's journal begin to mysteriously appear--entries that
reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with the phantasmagoric; the
loss of his father, killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier;
a folktale involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; and a
horrific incident that Tommy believed connects them.
As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what
happened become more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the
shocking truth about that night and Tommy's disappearance at Devil's
Rock.
