Suddenly, horribly, Mother dies inside the locked nursery. She said she was ill-but is that the real reason the old woman summoned the son she has not seen in so many years? They have come to visit Kevin’s mother-hated, frightening Mother, with her slash of red lipstick, mask of bone-white powder, and a tongue that has always cut to Kevin’s heart…and into his darkest nightmares. Now, for the first time in twenty years, Kevin Devereaux has returned home to this secluded place with his wife and two children. Here, Marguerite Devereaux, fifty and childless, has cast off her dreams to care for her aged, demanding mother. Here, where sudden storms unleash the murderous rage of wind and sea, stands the Devereaux mansion, a once-great plantation house now crumbling amid ancient oaks dripping with Spanish moss. Lush and deceptively tranquil, with its pristine beaches and blossoming vegetation, the island basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina coast.
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