The 13th

"Award-winning author Everson's latest novel fails to live up to the reputation that two Bram Stoker Awards earned him. Twenty-five years after a bloody massacre, the Castle House Lodge has reopened as an asylum, with an unusual group of patients. Dr. Barry Rockford, a controversial MIT geneticist, has recruited some local thugs to abduct young women. Early on, the reader learns that Rockford's experiments involve impregnating his captives as part of a Satanic ritual. His activities initially fly beneath the radar, until new Castle Point Police Officer Christy Sorensen learns that a neighboring jurisdiction has experienced a rash of disappearances. Sorensen's inquiries lead her to the amateur sleuthing of bicyclist David Shale, who earns himself a job at the asylum as a handyman. At times Everson's prose is so over the top it's laughable, but it's the stock characters and situations that sink this average novel." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

From the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of "Covenant." The mysterious Castle House Asylum has been the site of unholy occult rituals using 12 missing women. But the most important is yet to come--the 13th. Original.