But success might come at an even a higher price. To fail is to lose everything he has left. Now, left to cope with the disaster that had become his life, Jesse must unravel the mystery behind the house that has terrified him since he was a boy. But tragedy finds them once more, and Jesse is left forever changed. Casey has asked him to revisit their old demons, if only to help them find closure that’s long overdue. Nearly twenty years later, Jesse stands on the collapsing steps of the house that snatched away his best friend. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. But when Reed chooses the house as a backdrop for his own suicide, childhood ghost stories are transformed into a nightmare that sends Jesse into a downward spiral of grief. The Devil Crept In: A Novel is written by Ania Ahlborn and published by Gallery Books. Everyone imagines that something terrible lurks within the house’s abandoned rooms-especially Jesse and his two closest friends, Casey and Reed. Now, fear is reborn-and for Stevie, who is determined to find out what really happened to Jude, the awful truth may be too horrifying to imagine.IF YOU SEE HER The house on Old Mill Road has stood in an open field for longer than Jesse Wells has been alive, its crooked windows and jutting turret tormenting the kids of Warsaw, Michigan the way only a haunted house knows how. For years, the residents of Deer Valley have murmured about these unsolved crimes.and that a killer may still be lurking around their quiet town. And then there were the animals: pets gone missing out of yards. That, and there was that boy, Max Larsen.the one from years ago, found dead after also disappearing under mysterious circumstances. He knows what each ticking moment may mean for Jude, his cousin and best friend. And despite Stevie Clark's youth, he knows that, too he's seen the cop shows. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the odds usually point to a worst-case scenario.

Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope.

An unforgettable horror novel from bestselling sensation Ania Ahlborn-hailed as a writer of 'some of the most promising horror I've encountered in years' ( New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire)-in which a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years.

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