Halcyon
A Thriller
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From the author of End Times and Point Hollow comes a new thriller, Rio Youers's Halcyon
HALCYON is the answer for all Americans who want to escape, but paradise isn't what it seems. A beautiful island in the middle of Lake Ontario—a self-sustaining community made up of people who want to live without fear, crime, or greed. Halcyon is run by Valerie Kemp, aka Mother Moon, benevolent and altruistic on the outside, but hiding an unimaginable darkness inside. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of Glam Moon, a place of eternal beauty and healing. And she believes the pathway there can only be found at the end of pleasure.
On the heels of tragedy, Martin Lovegrove moves his family to Halcyon. A couple of months, he tells himself, to retreat from the chaos and grind. He soon begins to suspect there is something beneath Halcyon’s perfect veneer and sets out to discover the truth—however terrible it might be—behind the island and its mysterious founder, Mother Moon.
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Architect Martin Lovegrove, the hero of this exceptional paranormal thriller from Youers (The Forgotten Girl), and his wife struggle with the extreme night terrors of their 10-year-old daughter, Edith. The urgency of helping Edith becomes more pronounced after she experiences precognitive visions of a suicide bombing in downtown Buffalo, N.Y., carried out by a man named Garrett Riley and causing hundreds of casualties. A psychic, Calm Dumas, whom Martin and Laura reach out to, asserts that Edith is constantly "streaming" psychic data, and provides the child with a method for protecting herself from the horrific images she visualizes. But that coping mechanism fails after a tragic death, which makes Martin vulnerable to an invitation to join the selective community of Halcyon, located on an island in Lake Ontario. The idea of a fresh start in a small, off-the-grid setting, without the distractions and trivialities of modern life, appeals to Martin, who's unaware of Halcyon's dark secrets, including its connection with Riley. Youers humanizes all his characters and makes readers feel the pain of the events he describes.
