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For more than three decades John Saul has haunted the brand new York Times bestseller list?and listeners imaginations?along with his chilling tales of psychological suspense and supernatural horror. His instinct for striking the deepest chords of dread in our hearts and heads is unerring, and his gift idea for steering a tale from the light of day into the darkest depths of problem is at its harrowing best in House of Reckoning.Following the untimely death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is pressured to grow up quickly in order to help seem her familys Vermont plantation and look after her grieving father, whos drowning his sorrow in alcohol. But their calm life collectively is shattered when her father is jailed for eradicating another man in a barroom brawl and injuring Sarah in a drunken car crash. Remaining in the frosty treatment of a loveless foster family and alienated at university, Sarah finds a kindred heart in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions. And in eccentric fine art teacher Bettina Phillips, Sarah finds a mentor wanting to nurture her expertise for painting. But within the walls of Bettinas ancestral home, the mansion called Shutters, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing. Monstrous images from the houses dark record seem to stream unbidden from Sarahs paintbrush?images echoed by Nicks chilling hallucinations. Trapped for ages in the shadowy rooms of Shutters, the assault and fury of long-dead decades have finally found a gateway from the grave into the world of the living. And Sarah and Nick have found a vitality they never had: to seize control, and take revenge.
