Macmillan
Featuring: Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft; Adam Hunter; Mark Hunter
337 pages ISBN: 031264325X EAN: 9780312643256 Kindle: B004TLH3D8 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Ex-military officer, Mark Hunter, has seen more than his
share of tragedy in his profession, but nothing prepared him
for the most horrible of tragedies in his personal life.
When he lost his beloved wife and daughter in a freak
accident, he held tightly to the only thing he had left in
his life, his son Adam. However, Adam is having some very
serious issues. He's dreaming terrible dreams where he wakes
up speaking in languages that he's never heard. The voices
speaking through him belong to those long dead. Although,
Adam says he can't remember his dreams, they're still
starting to take a toll on him.
Mark calls in the local doctor, Elizabeth Bancroft, to see
if there's anything that she can do. He's hoping against
hope that the cause of his son's problems isn't something
much deeper; something rooted in the blackest of all evils.
Mark already knows the answer to what's going on with his
precious son, but he doesn't want to believe it. That's why
the lovely Dr. Bancroft is going to examine Adam and see if
there's a true medical reason for his ailment.
Elizabeth has some ideas about what may be wrong with Adam
but she's never seen anything quite like the symptoms he's
displaying Everything that she's familiar with in her
profession has more to do with psychiatric issues than
anything else. However, she starts to quickly realize that
Adam is doing things that may be completely out of her
ability to treat.
As Elizabeth gets more involved with and more attached to
Mark and his son, she resolves to help in any way she can.
She's not quite prepared to hear the story that Mark tells
her late one cold, snowy night after a particularly
distressing episode with Adam. He speaks of witches, curses,
and horrible deaths. Then he tells her that it's time he
accepts that Adam is cursed and that only he can break that
curse.
At first, Elizabeth is doubtful, but as time goes on, she
starts to see that there may be more than a grain of truth
in his words. She promises Mark that she will help in any
way that she possibly can. So Mark leaves Adam in
Elizabeth's care while he goes off to face a horror that he
had hoped was far in his past. It's the only way to save
Adam and make him whole again.
THE MAGDALENA CURSE is an excellent book for people that
enjoy the horror genre. It's also a great book for anyone
that loves a good mystery. Author F. G. Cottam spins a web
of magic, evil, death, and secrets. Then he shows how love
may be the best weapon against the worst of these. You'll
find yourself caught up in the story of these three people
from the first page and it only gets better as it goes
along. Treat yourself to THE MAGDALENA CURSE when you've
got time to
read it in one setting because it's nearly impossible to put
down once you begin.
It only takes a couple of visits to convince Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft that Adam Hunter is not just having bad dreams. He’s a child possessed. His father is desperate: adamant that his son’s affliction is the result of a curse he incurred in the depths of the Amazon, where a badly misguided military operation ended in a terrifying and macabre encounter. There he met two women—one who placed the curse and the other with whom any hope of saving his son resides. Mark Hunter leaves the Scottish Highlands to beg help from the mysterious woman, leaving his son in the care of Elizabeth—who is about to discover there are equally dark secrets on their own doorstep. And in her blood . . .
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