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JOHN SAUL's first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. He has since written twenty-two successive bestselling novels of suspense, including The Manhattan Hunt Club, The Right Hand of Evil, The Presence, Black Lightning, The Homing, and Guardian. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling serial thriller The Blackstone Chronicles, initially published in six installments but now available in one complete volume. Mr. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Maui, Hawaii.

Fifteen-year-old Matthew Moore seems to have a charmed life . . . until a mysterious fire forces his grandmother to move in with his family. The elderly woman insists on recreating the bedroom of Cynthia, her favored child who died tragically more than a decade ago. Soon Matt's life insidiously begins to change.

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"Don't plan to go to work early the day after reading this" "excellent Saul" about a child beaten and locked in a dark chest. "Incomprehensible and terrifying." Readers "couldn't put it down." "He's a master of his craft." It'll have you checking behind your back, but our more literary reviewers kept the ratings from the top score.