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Book Review of The Homing

The Homing
The Homing
Author: John Saul
Genres: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Horror
Book Type: Paperback
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After years of living in Los Angeles, pretty young widow Karen Spellman and her two daughters are leaving urban chaos behind to return to the lush, verdant countryside of Karen's childhood, where she plans to marry her high school sweetheart. But their new found bliss will soon turn to terror... Something sinister awaits the Spellmans. Something so hideous it seems not earthly, but spawned in hell. For here, long ago, amid placid rolling fields, a shadowy menace once stalked the innocent. Dormant, it waits - waits for summer's heat to shimmer over the valley in a suffocating wae; waits for the arrival of its perfect victim... And now, with the dizzying descent of a nightmare, Karen's homecoming will become a confrontation with evil, as she struggles to protect her vulnerable daughters from a menacing that seems to rise from the very earth itself - a malign, preternatural force that must satisfy its gruesome thirst for its unsuspecting prey...