Melissa P. (Meliss) reviewed on
From the back cover: After her husband died, Athena Monroe often wondered why she stayed in the dilapidated old farmhouse, buried deep in the harsh, blighted New Jersey pine barrens. Perhaps it was because her mysteriously afflicted young son seemed to feel such strong ties to the area's primeval swamps and stunted foests-- such an affinity for the pines. She didn't guess that his psychic connection was with something evil-- until ranting fits and night terrors gripped him in a vise of horror. Athena was afraid her inability to really love the boy was now causing his strange behavior, but the old-timers in the region recognized something more sinister. To them it was an omen of things to come-- a sign that the monstrous Jersey Devil was about to reappear.
