After the untimely death of her mother and the arrest of her father for
killing a man in barroom brawl, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced
to grow up fast. Left in the cold care of a foster family and alienated
at school, Sarah befriends classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental
patient still plagued by voices and visions, and the eccentric art
instructor Bettina Phillips, a mentor eager to nurture Sarah's talent
for painting. But within the walls of Bettina's ancestral mansion, Sarah
finds that monstrous images from the house's dark history seem to flow
unbidden from her paintbrush--images echoed by Nick's chilling
hallucinations. It seems the violence and fury of long-dead generations
have finally found a gateway from the grave into the world of the
living. And Sarah and Nick have found a power they never had: to take
control, and take revenge.