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William Morrow
January 2016
On Sale: January 19, 2016
Featuring: Madeline Madden; Scott Madden
368 pages
ISBN: 0062262459
EAN: 9780062262455
Kindle: B00WQZG44I
Hardcover / e-Book
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Thriller | Science Fiction
From the award-winning author of Hide Me Among the
Graves, Last Call, Declare, and Three Days to
Never, a phantasmagoric, thrilling, mind-bending tale
of speculative fiction in which one man must uncover occult
secrets of 1920s Hollywood to save his family. In the
wake of their Aunt Amity’s suicide, Scott and Madeline
Madden are summoned to Caveat, the eerie, decaying mansion
in the Hollywood hills in which they were raised. But their
decadent and reclusive cousins, the malicious
wheelchair-bound Claimayne and his sister, Ariel, do not
welcome Scott and Madeline’s return to the childhood home
they once shared. While Scott desperately wants to go back
to their shabby South-of-Sunset lives, he cannot pry his
sister away from this haunted “House of Usher in the
Hollywood Hills” that is a conduit for the
supernatural. Decorated by bits salvaged from old
hotels and movie sets, Caveat hides a dark family secret
that stretches back to the golden days of Rudolph Valentino
and the silent film stars. A collection of hypnotic
eight-limbed abstract images inked on paper allows the
Maddens to briefly fragment and flatten time—to transport
themselves into the past and future in visions that are both
puzzling and terrifying. Though their cousins know little
about these ancient “spiders” which provoke unpredictable
temporal dislocations, Ariel and Claimayne have been using
for years—an addiction that has brought Claimayne to the
brink of selfish destruction. As Madeline falls more
completely under Caveat’s spell, Scott discovers that to
protect her, he must use the perilous spiders himself. But
will he unravel the mystery of the Madden family’s past and
finally free them. . . or be pulled deeper into their deadly
web?
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