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The stunning new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial

'DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK' - STEPHEN KING'Creepy, individual and gripping' - IAN RANKIN'A thrilling hall of mirrors filled with twists' - ALEX MICHAELIDES'Brilliant and moving' - SARAH PINBOROUGH

Každý vie, že poslednému domu na Zbytočnej ulici sa treba vyhnúť oblúkom. Žije v ňom Ted Bannerman, čudák s mačkou a dcérou, ktorú nikto nikdy nevidel. Pred jedenástimi rokmi bol Ted hlavný podozrivý v prípade uneseného dievčatka. Hoci polícia uňho doma nič neobjavila, nedokáže sa zbaviť stigmy vraha. Je len obyčajný muž, ktorý dopláca na predsudky okolia? Alebo nepotrestaný zločinec s dobre pochovanými tajomstvami.Dee sa nikdy nevzdala nádeje, že vypátra pravdu o sestrinom zmiznutí. Rozhodne sa vziať veci do vlastných rúk a presťahuje sa do susedného domu na Zbytočnej ulici. Je odhodlaná odhaliť Teda za každú cenu. Napätie stúpa a prvé tajomstvá začnú vychádzať na povrch. Ukáže sa, že všetko je inak a skutočnosť môže byť oveľa desivejšia.

New Year's Day, 1921. Seven mutilated bodies are discovered in an ancient stone circle on a remote Scottish island. The victims are 'the Children' - members of a nature cult ruled by the charismatic, sadistic patriarch, the adder. The sole survivor of the massacre, Dinah, claims that Eve is the murderer, apparently drowned while attempting her escape. Yet as Eve's story of the years leading up the massacre intertwines with Dinah's account of the aftermath, a darker, stranger truth begins to emerge

She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all. For generations they have died young, and now fifteen-year-old Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Confined to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor, they suffer their disease in isolation. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world and dares to fall in love. It is only then that they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse, the curse of the bone-white woman who visits in the night, leaving death in her wake. With a ghostly face at the window, inexplicable events and a sense of menace hanging over every page, this is one chilling gothic novel.