Bag of Bones

DERRY, MAINE. Mike Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly. After this tragic loss, the bestselling writer suffers acute writer's block, unable even to face the blank screen of the word processor without being shaken by nausea and panic.

Then the nightmares and the voices start . . nightmares of Sara Laughs, their beautiful lakeside retreat. Still Mike is drawn inexorably to their once happy home; drawn to his old typewriter and the urge to write again.

But the once familiar Western Maine town has changed. It's now in the tyrannical grip of millionaire Max Devore and his terrifying skeletal bookkeeper. Devore is determined to obtain custody of three-year-old Kyra, his deceased son's child, and is twisting the community to his purpose.

When the girl and her young mother turn to Mike for help, he finds himself powerless to resist them. But there are other morc sinister forces at Sara Laughs determined to stand in their way...

Bag of Bones is a gripping, distinctive, haunting tale of suspense, romance, terror and grief, of lost love's enduring bonds and Of a new love, struggling to be free of the past and the sins of the ancestors. --front flap