A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction,
psychological suspense, and supernatural horror from the author of A Head Full of Ghosts
“A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I’m pretty hard to scare,” raved Stephen King about Paul Tremblay’s previous novel. Now, Tremblay returns with another disturbing tale sure to unsettle readers.
Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her
fourteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods
of a local park.
The search isn’t yielding any answers, and
Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend his
disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration. The local and state police haven’t uncovered any leads. Josh and Luis, the friends who were with Tommy last, may not be
telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when
they were supposedly hanging out a landmark the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock — rumored to be cursed.
Living in an all-too-real
nightmare, riddled with worry, pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly
unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a
ghostly shadow of Tommy materializes in her bedroom, while Kate and
other local residents claim to see a shadow peering through their own
windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages torn from Tommy’s
journal begin to mysteriously appear — entries that reveal an introverted
teenager obsessed with the phantasmagoric; the loss of his father,
killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier; a folktale
involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; and a horrific incident that Tommy believed connected them all and changes everything.
As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened
becomes more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking
truth about that night and Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock.
