Though it may sound like the stuff that dreams (or nightmares) are made of, the extraordinary town of Lily Dale, the setting of In the Blink of an Eye, really exists. However, the chilling story talented novelist Wendy Corsi Staub sets in this charming Victorian-era resort community, inhabited mostly by spiritualists, is thankfully fiction. As the story goes -- one Halloween young Kristin Shuttleworth saw something at the Biddle house at Ten Summer Street in Lily Dale, something her best friend, Julia, who was with her at the time, couldn't see. Fifteen years later, after her friend's return to Lily Dale is followed by tragedy, Julia finds herself wondering again what that "something" could have been -- and whether it had anything to do with the unexpected deaths of Kristin and her mother. Julia's haunted misgivings turn to fear when Kristin's blind young daughter, Dulcie, starts "seeing" things in her new home, Ten Summer Street. What secrets did the Biddles hide in their lovely old house? What connection has drawn Julia first to Kristin and then to Dulcie? And what danger awaits them both in this town where past and present are said to mingle across the unseen bridge between our world and the next?
Welcome to Lily Dale, New York . . . a sleepy summer resort, home to a population of psychics, and the place where Julia Garrity and Kristin Shuttleworth formed a fast friendship broken only by death.
Ten Summer Street is no ordinary house. It was there, fifteen years ago, that Kristin saw something on a Halloween night that would haunt her until the end of her days. Since then, Julia has watched both Kristin and her mother fall prey to whomever-or whatever-lurks there.
Now Kristin's blind six-year-old daughter, Dulcie, has come to live in Lily Dale-at Ten Summer Street. Appointing herself protector, Julia is determined to coax the secrets of the house out into the light, to discover what the little girl "sees" roaming its halls . . . before the murderous force residing there makes them both its next victims.
Welcome to Lily Dale, New York . . . a sleepy summer resort, home to a population of psychics, and the place where Julia Garrity and Kristin Shuttleworth formed a fast friendship broken only by death.
Ten Summer Street is no ordinary house. It was there, fifteen years ago, that Kristin saw something on a Halloween night that would haunt her until the end of her days. Since then, Julia has watched both Kristin and her mother fall prey to whomever-or whatever-lurks there.
Now Kristin's blind six-year-old daughter, Dulcie, has come to live in Lily Dale-at Ten Summer Street. Appointing herself protector, Julia is determined to coax the secrets of the house out into the light, to discover what the little girl "sees" roaming its halls . . . before the murderous force residing there makes them both its next victims.
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BN ID: | 2940170209170 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 02/19/2013 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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