The Homecoming
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
For fans of Stephen King and John Connolly, The Homecoming is a darkly menacing horror thriller, and Book 2 in the Niceville trilogy. Somewhere in the American South, there is a town where something is very, very wrong....
When Kate and Nick Kavanaugh take in young Rainey Teague they know his parents died under mysterious circumstances. What they don’t know is that Rainey is turning out to be someone – or something – very scary.
What happened to the innocent ten-year-old child who last year disappeared without a trace, only to be found in an ancient crypt?
Haunted by the malice that holds their town in its grip, will Kate and Nick be able to save Rainey from the blackness that lies within? For the malevolent presence that lives in Crater Sink – and now perhaps in Rainey – has plans for the town of Niceville…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A focused story makes for a smoother route to the small Southern town of Niceville in Stroud's superior sequel to 2012's convoluted Niceville. Nick Kavanaugh, a former Special Forces soldier now a tough county cop, and his lawyer wife, Kate, have become the guardians of 10-year-old Rainey Teague, a key player in the previous book. On a good day, Rainey is a handful, but he appears to be changing into the epitome of his evil ancestors. The answer to why this is so may lie in the gilt mirror hidden in the Kavanaughs' closet. Meanwhile, the investigation of an armored-car heist during which four officers were murdered brings more violence to Niceville, including the accidental killing of a mobster and his grandson during a police shootout with an escaped prisoner. Elements such as an ancient ghost story, a nearby sinkhole that Native Americans consider a bad place, homicidal criminals, and the soul of one little boy meld into a rich, realistic supernatural thriller.
