"e;Affecting, genuine, poignant, uplifting: a limpid, beautifully orchestrated"e; thriller about a family's struggle with evil from a New York Times-bestseller (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, life for eight-year-old Stevie is an unending parade of misery and disaster.Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself-and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil . . . and it's coming for Stevie next."e;For Stephen King fans and those who like their suspense mixed with the supernatural."e; -Library Journal"e;Absorbing . . . the pull of family drama with an overlayer of rising supsense."e; -Publishers Weekly

"Affecting, genuine, poignant, uplifting: a limpid, beautifully orchestrated" thriller about a family's struggle with evil from a New York Times-bestseller ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, life for eight-year-old Stevie is an unending parade of misery and disaster.
Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further into himself-and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary friends.
But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates: each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil ... and it's coming for Stevie next.
"For Stephen King fans and those who like their suspense mixed with the supernatural." - Library Journal
"Absorbing... the pull of family drama with an overlayer of rising supsense." - Publishers Weekly