C.L. Gibson
The Grudge - COMING SEPTEMBER 2019
A Devil's Rules Series Novel
Will she be the first to see, or the last to die?
It’s 1978 in a Victorian mansion sixty miles west of Chicago. There’s a suicide note and two dead. Nothing is taken out except the bodies; like a coffin the mansion is sealed tight.
Finding her father and stepmother lying in their own blood, a girl who can see everything blocks her own psychic visions from that day using distance and time. Forced to return, she can't block it any more.
Eighteen years have passed since Clarissa, the daughter, and only heir to over 9,000 acres of emerald-green fields, returns to the mansion, but this time she allows her secret art of “seeing” to focus. Her mind’s eye watches her father being slaughtered and a woman’s face explode as it’s blown across the room by the hollow-point bullets. But was it her stepmother's face? Who was holding the gun?
Clarissa knows it wasn't murder-suicide. It was a cruel, well-planned homicide.
She's seized by their killer and forced to open her mind's eye to produce the one thing the envious creature wants; knowing that by giving in she'll be joining the dead.
Years of dormancy have made Clarissa’s visions blurry. Who can she trust, her childhood best friend, Garrett, who betrayed her and is now the family attorney, or his mother Halla, the only real mother Clarissa had ever known, or should she believe her first crush, Joseph who though honest and hard-working, remains a struggling loner.
After years of deceit, envy, and murder, the truth comes crashing in on them all.
The Grudge exposes envy.
A Devil's Rules Series Novel
Will she be the first to see, or the last to die?
It’s 1978 in a Victorian mansion sixty miles west of Chicago. There’s a suicide note and two dead. Nothing is taken out except the bodies; like a coffin the mansion is sealed tight.
Finding her father and stepmother lying in their own blood, a girl who can see everything blocks her own psychic visions from that day using distance and time. Forced to return, she can't block it any more.
Eighteen years have passed since Clarissa, the daughter, and only heir to over 9,000 acres of emerald-green fields, returns to the mansion, but this time she allows her secret art of “seeing” to focus. Her mind’s eye watches her father being slaughtered and a woman’s face explode as it’s blown across the room by the hollow-point bullets. But was it her stepmother's face? Who was holding the gun?
Clarissa knows it wasn't murder-suicide. It was a cruel, well-planned homicide.
She's seized by their killer and forced to open her mind's eye to produce the one thing the envious creature wants; knowing that by giving in she'll be joining the dead.
Years of dormancy have made Clarissa’s visions blurry. Who can she trust, her childhood best friend, Garrett, who betrayed her and is now the family attorney, or his mother Halla, the only real mother Clarissa had ever known, or should she believe her first crush, Joseph who though honest and hard-working, remains a struggling loner.
After years of deceit, envy, and murder, the truth comes crashing in on them all.
The Grudge exposes envy.
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