Tonia C. reviewed on 6/30/2005

Fifteen-year old Matthew Moore seems to have a charmed life...until a mysterious fire forces his gradmother to move in with his family. The elderly woman isnists on re-creating the bedroom of Cynthia, her favored child who died tragically more than a decade ago. SOon Matt's life insidiously begins to change. At night he finds himself haunted by nightmares of unimaginable terror. In the morming the smell of Cynthia's perfune seems to linger in his room. While his grandmother drives a wedge between his once devoted parents, Matt transforms from a gregariouns teenager to a hostile loner. Then a shocking tragedy shatters the family beyond repair - as a horrific shadow from the past takes on an implacable life of its own, clawing toward Matt with ferocious hunger...

This is a very good book, but read carfully you might miss a connection. 5 stars.

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