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Seventeen‑year‑old Alice Pearson is eager to escape the confines of her upstate New York hometown. While avoiding dysfunctional family life, she and her friends meet the enigmatic Jack Wyck, who invites them into his small, quasi‑mystical faith community. As their carefree existence turns darker, Alice crosses moral and emotional boundaries that threaten her reality. Twenty years later, as a folklore professor, Alice must face the resurfacing documentary that aims to expose Wyck’s crimes and the cult that still follows him from prison. The novel explores guilt, complicity, and the struggle to regain sanity after a night of horrific violence.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: Beth Hahn
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