Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction
Summary
Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown
for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson -- a place where monsters
swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold
spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a
lake -- and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father
face-to-face with a terrible vision of death that will haunt
him forever. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain,
his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that
are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who
can hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of
moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the
shadows of his hometown -- for his father's sanity and his own
life hang in the