Amanda Verner has seen the Devil, and she knows he lives inside her. At least, she’s thought so since that horrible last winter when her Mama was sick and they all survived for months in a snowy prison on the mountain. When her Mama delivers a deaf and blind baby, their family is pushed to the brink – as is Amanda’s troubled mind. She’s been secretly meeting with a sweet boy who distracts her from the sadness of home, and accidentally becomes pregnant. When she tells him, it turns out he isn’t so sweet.

So when her family decides to move off the mountain and into the prairie, she hopes it’s a chance for a fresh start. But she’s heard the ghost stories of blood and mutilation down there, and she’s nervous she might revisit her time with the devil. As her family begins to settle in to a new life, Amanda is tortured by some unseen being creeping around her and the new cabin. Is it the Devil again, come to take her soul? Demons of the old ghost stories? Or her own horrible decisions come back to haunt her?

Review: This book is absolutely terrifying! If you love scary ghost stories, this is for you. I have NEVER been scared while reading a book…until now. Author Cat Winters likens the book to Stephen King writing Little House on the Prairie, and she’s absolutely right. Lukavics is an enormously talented writer who is a master of pace and tension. We are so drawn in to poor Amanda Verner’s world, and so sympathetic to her plight. i wanted to run out to the prairie and warn her family, “hey! Get the heck out of that cabin! IT’S HAUNTED! HAUNTED, I TELL YOU!”

This book has some pretty adult themes, so it’s a better fit for older or more mature teens and adults. Pitch-perfect scariness aside, this book is expertly written. Not a line is wasted, and you’ll be so drawn in to this horrible wagon-wreck you won’t be able to look away until the bloody conclusion. No happy endings here. At least, not for most of them 🙂

Absolutely, highly recommended for those with strong constitutions!

Go forth and read, and be terrified. You’re welcome.