Elizabeth Sanderson faces every mother's nightmare when her thirteen-year-old son, Tommy, vanishes during a late-night hangout with two friends at a local landmark called Devil’s Rock. While the police search the Massachusetts woods, Elizabeth and her daughter Kate experience strange occurrences in their home, including fleeting sightings of a shadow that resembles Tommy and the discovery of pages from his journal left in his bedroom. These entries reveal a disturbing interest in the supernatural and a strained dynamic with his teenage peers, suggesting a dark influence took hold before he disappeared.
Readers drawn to psychological suspense and rural dread will find a story that avoids easy answers. Those who study the mechanics of grief and the instability of memory read this to observe how a family disintegrates under the weight of ambiguity. The book provides an unflinching look at the secrets teenagers keep from their parents and the fear that a child might become a stranger long before they go missing. The reader finishes the story with a heavy sense of the limits of human protection.
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
