Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival.
The time has come for Amy and Joey to pay for her sins, because the carnival is coming back to town....
But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer.
Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children--Joey loves monster movies and Amy is about to graduate from high school.
A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands...
She married a man she grew to hate--and gave birth to a child she could never love.
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival.
Evil comes in frightening and familiar forms in this terrifying novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
A premiere release by the bestselling author of Dragon Tears.
Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers--neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town.
Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children.
She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love.
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival