This Land Turns Evil Slowly

MIDSUMMER NIGHTMARE

It had begun as a seaside picnic on a tranquil summer's day. There had been four of them-Nora, Deborah, Joanne, and Warren-barely past childhood, but already stirred by longings they did not understand. Before that day closed, horror would end their youth and innocence in an instant and darken all their days. Now, twenty years later, Nora has returned to the place where her terrible guilt was spawned. She has come back to lay to rest the ghosts that rose on that summer's day. But, waiting at Ballard's Cross, hidden among past memories, lie madness and murder and a love menaced by evil...