By Laurie R. King
An acclaimed grasp of suspense creates a heroine you'll always remember during this fantastically chilling novel of a girl who starts a determined project which could rework her life--or finish it.
WHAT occurs in the event that your WORST FEARS AREN’T ALL on your MIND?
Rae child is a girl at the facet: at the fringe of sanity, at the fringe of tragedy, and now at the fringe of the area. She has moved to an island on the a long way reaches of the continent to revive the home of an both haunted determine, her mysterious great-uncle; yet as her existence starts off to rebuild itself in addition to the home, his tale starts off to wrap round hers. robust forces are stirring, yet Rae can't see the place her truth leaves off and his destiny begins.
Fifty-two years previous, Rae needs to conflict the sentiments that experience lengthy tormented her--panic, depression, and a skin-crawling experience of watchers in the back of the timber. sooner than she got here the following, she believed that the majority of the issues she feared existed purely in her brain. And who can say, as traumatic incidents multiply, if any of the watchers on Folly Island will be genuine? Is Rae paranoid, as her kinfolk and the police think, or is the hazard genuine? Is the island alive with promise--or with hazards?
With Folly, award-winning writer LAURIE R. KING once more powerfully redefines mental suspense on a worldly and harrowing new point, and proves why legions of readers and reviewers have named her a grasp of the style.
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Most of it. She was scraping the uneaten remnants into the flames when the dish slipped from her nerveless fingers into the coals; in snatching it up, Rae brushed her hand against the searing metal grill. With a sob of fury she hurled the plate into the bushes and cradled her hand to her chest, eyes tight shut. The drugs in her knapsack called to her, but she had other plans for them. Instead, she rummaged furiously through the boxes of equipment piled near the tent until she came to the heavy leather brush-clearing gloves.
At the same time, once the hospital staff agreed that she was no longer a danger to herself or to others, neither did Rae back down from her decision. Planning and gathering her strength, she waited out the remainder of the winter in the house of her combination nurse and baby-sitter. Then, when spring began, she packed her bags, ordered her lumber, arranged for her babysitter to drive her north, and prepared to step into the renovation process that a far different Rae Newborn had begun several years before.
Whatever was missing, a careful adding up of numbers would not reveal it. “I’ll leave you as a signatory on the account, but I don’t think you’ll need to do anything. I really appreciate all you’ve done, Tamara. ” It was always “we” with Tamara. She began to slide the papers back into the envelope. ” “Long, but good. ” “I had too much stuff,” Rae told her, giving the ready excuse. ” she asked dutifully. “He’s fine. ” The thin horsewoman picked up her diet Coke and took a swallow. Rae would have been just as happy were Don to be struck down by a massive coronary, but again she took care not to show the thought.