Berkley
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Featuring: Frank Nichols; Eudora Nichols
368 pages ISBN: 0441020674 EAN: 9780441020676 Kindle: B0052RHBGC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation-and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice.
It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of Savoyard still stand. Where a longstanding debt of blood has never been forgotten.
A debt that has been waiting patiently for Frank Nichols's homecoming...