A telephone rings in the dead of night with shocking news for single mother MaryAnne Carpenter: her friends the Wilkensons are suddenly, inexplicably dead, their only child, MaryAnne's godchild, abruptly orphaned. But as MaryAnne rushes to embrace her young charge, disturbing questions mount. Was it merely a tragic mishap that took these lives?
Or was it murder?

Soon MaryAnne will begin to suspect an even more sinister force at work, for Joey Wilkenson, a sad and silent adolescent, seems to harbour secrets beyond her most nightmarish imaginings. As winter transforms the beautiful, lonely Wilkenson ranch into a forbidding place of blinding storms and dangerous darkness, Joey's sly secretiveness and his volatile temper begin to turn MaryAnne's tender feelings to icy fear. And as a series of horrific murders draw ever closer to her young family, defying solution by a desperate police force. MaryAnne begins to know the true meaning of terror.

Alone in the howling winter whiteness, MaryAnne Carpenter must guard her children against an unseen, ever more insatiable killer - a killer who is closer than she thinks...

GUARDIAN

Genres: Horror - Thriller - Mystery - Suspense - Supernatural
Condition: Good
Published: 1994 by Bantam
Pages: 381
ISBN: 0553407465
Weight: 215g