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Jessie and Carl have made an awful mistake. They must have been more careful. When Jonah came to their cabin in the Maine woods, asking to work with the telephone, they should never have let him in. But he told them his campsite have been robbed and he was stranded without money no gear. Jessie took pity on him. She was thinking about her own missing daughter, Sylvie, and hoping she was getting the same kindness—wherever she was.
So, they invite him in, share their dinner with him, offer him a bed for the night time. And they discover that this stranger at their table knows about them. About Sylvie, their troubled daughter; about the secrets they haven't revealed to the other person during forty years of marriage. By morning, they realize the young man does not have any intention of leaving.
Jessie and Carl are actually captives in their own house.
The reader, too, is held captive by this novel that seems to unfold in real time. Over the next twenty-four hours, as Jonah's threats escalate, the couple battle to outwit him and stay alive. Their attempts to escape force them to change roles, one discovering hidden strength, the other giving in to long-concealed weakness. Exposed, brutalized, and lost, each fights to carry to sanity at a time when the edge of madness has never seemed so near.
Cynthia Thayer is a novelist who has taken her talent for drawing familiar characters—people we really know—to a fresh level. In this particular taut psychological thriller, she pushes them to their limits and shakes their secrets free.
So, they invite him in, share their dinner with him, offer him a bed for the night time. And they discover that this stranger at their table knows about them. About Sylvie, their troubled daughter; about the secrets they haven't revealed to the other person during forty years of marriage. By morning, they realize the young man does not have any intention of leaving.
Jessie and Carl are actually captives in their own house.
The reader, too, is held captive by this novel that seems to unfold in real time. Over the next twenty-four hours, as Jonah's threats escalate, the couple battle to outwit him and stay alive. Their attempts to escape force them to change roles, one discovering hidden strength, the other giving in to long-concealed weakness. Exposed, brutalized, and lost, each fights to carry to sanity at a time when the edge of madness has never seemed so near.
Cynthia Thayer is a novelist who has taken her talent for drawing familiar characters—people we really know—to a fresh level. In this particular taut psychological thriller, she pushes them to their limits and shakes their secrets free.
