Sarah Langan Knihy

Vítejte v Maple Street. Na tomto dokonalém předměstí obyvatele pojí nejen jejich děti a práce, ale i falešný pocit bezpečí. Když se sem přistěhují Wildeovi, okamžitě probudí ve svých sousedech obavy. Arlo a Gertie a jejich zvláštní děti se do perfektního obrazu této čtvrti nehodí. V sousedství vládne čím dál větší napětí a v nedalekém parku vznikne závrt, do něhož nechtěně spadne dcera místní královny. Zatímco po ní všichni pátrají, Wildeovi se dočkají hned několika obvinění. Najednou naproti sobě stojí dvě matky a čelí soudu veřejnosti. Strhující a nemilosrdný portrét předměstí odkrývající nebezpečí sociální hierarchie a odvrácenou stranu mateřství a přátelství.

As the outside world literally falls apart, Linda and Russell Farmer-Bowen and their teenage twins are offered the chance to relocate to Plymouth Valley, a walled-off company town with clean air, pantries that never go empty, and blue-ribbon schools. The family jumps at the opportunity. They’d be crazy not to take it. This might be their last chance at survival.But fitting in takes work. And the strange residents fervently adhere to a group of customs and beliefs called Hollow... but what exactly is Hollow? Finally, thanks to Linda’s medical skills they begin to find acceptance, and everything seems fine. Sure, Russell starts hyperventilating through a paper bag in the middle of the night, and the kids have drifted like bridgeless islands, but at least they’ll survive. But something isn’t right. The more Linda learns, the more frightened she becomes. Should the Farmer-Bowens be fighting to stay, or fighting to get out?

"A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighbouring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat...The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Louis Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. There in the abandoned woods, a small, cruel boy unearths an ancient horror- a contagious plague that transforms its victims into something violent, hungry... and inhuman. The long, dark night is just beginning. And all hope must die as the contagion feeds- for the malevolence will not rest until it had devoured every living soul in Corpus Christi... and beyond."--Provided by publisher.