I could not put this book down. It keep you guessing until the very end. The back of the book states:
At the edge of town....
Karen Donovan no sooner marries bestselling novelist Philip Kaye before he leaves on a book tour, abandoning her at his Provincetown mansion with his sullen teenage daughter. Black-clad Jessie Kaye isn't exactly good company: When she's not sulking around, she's locked in her room writing in her journal, and her strangeness is a topic of local gossip...
In the house on the bluff...
As autumn sets in, Karen befriends flamboyant local celebrity Bobbie Noble. But their plans to renovate Philip's house are sidetracked when Karen stumbles upon a diary of accused axe-murderess Lettie Hatch. It discribes Lettie's boorish father and young, ambitious stepmother-both of whom would fall victim to a crazed killer. And the more Karen reads, the more she's convinced that Jessie, with her increasingly bizarre behavior, is channeling something sinister...
Something wicked waits.
When Philip returns, he's in no mood to entertain the theories that have grown into a nerve-jangling obsession for Karen. Now, as a bitter winter binds tha Cape in snow and ice, Karen feels a presence taking over. It knows what happened here nearly a hundred years before. And it won't stop until history is rewritten-in blood.
At the edge of town....
Karen Donovan no sooner marries bestselling novelist Philip Kaye before he leaves on a book tour, abandoning her at his Provincetown mansion with his sullen teenage daughter. Black-clad Jessie Kaye isn't exactly good company: When she's not sulking around, she's locked in her room writing in her journal, and her strangeness is a topic of local gossip...
In the house on the bluff...
As autumn sets in, Karen befriends flamboyant local celebrity Bobbie Noble. But their plans to renovate Philip's house are sidetracked when Karen stumbles upon a diary of accused axe-murderess Lettie Hatch. It discribes Lettie's boorish father and young, ambitious stepmother-both of whom would fall victim to a crazed killer. And the more Karen reads, the more she's convinced that Jessie, with her increasingly bizarre behavior, is channeling something sinister...
Something wicked waits.
When Philip returns, he's in no mood to entertain the theories that have grown into a nerve-jangling obsession for Karen. Now, as a bitter winter binds tha Cape in snow and ice, Karen feels a presence taking over. It knows what happened here nearly a hundred years before. And it won't stop until history is rewritten-in blood.
