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The author's instinct for touching the deepest strings of fear in hearts and minds is infallible, and his gift for integrating a narrative into the blackest depths of nightmare manifests with its strongest sides in the impactful novel "House of Reckoning", which grabs from the first page and refuses to release the reader until the breathless, hypnotic finale.

Fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is not a darling of fate – her mother dies of cancer, and her father, on one terrifying night, kills a man and knocks down his daughter. Entrusted to a hostile foster family, isolated from everyone at school, the crippled Sarah finds a kindred spirit in her classmate Nick Dunnigan – a recent psychiatric patient who has never stopped hearing voices and having visions... The two children soon discover that something is calling them to the inherited home of their teacher Bettina, considered by everyone in town to be a witch. The buried past of the estate comes alive in Sarah's drawings and in Nick's chilling hallucinations. Kept locked away for decades in secret rooms, the fury of forgotten victims finally finds a way out into the world of the living... and Sarah and Nick discover in themselves an unsuspected power: to change reality and mete out retribution.