Reynolds, Bonnie Jones
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Oriskany Forks, 1926. Nice little town. Nice people viciously minding the business of others. God-fearing people, eager to believe the delusions of on
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e insane young woman while ignoring the true, black evil emanating from another. Nice, ignorant, people who knew it all, aiding in the ruin, heartbreak, and death of others.
Just home-folks, the Bascombs. Was Bascomb really their name? What of Aunt Alice, who loved to watch young girls undress? And Paul Bascomb's mother, who had mysteriously disappeared when he was a boy?
What about the abandoned round house in the woods above the Bascomb farm? The one with the windowless second story. The one where Crazy Lizzy had so gruesomely perished.
Why did Helen Bascomb think that those woods were creeping toward her home?
Nice-looking kid, that Harley Westcott. Dashing, on that horse that he rode. And rich. A real prize.
Red-haired Lilith Bascomb? She was going to be a beauty. No match, however, for her Coke-ad pretty, determined, and mentally-unbalanced sister Cassandra.
Before that Bascomb pair, a scheming Hitty Westcott had stolen Tobin Westcott out from under the nose of her sister Carrie.
Why did Hitty have to cut her father's throat open?
What did Carrie do all day, alone in her remote house back in the woods?
How did the Westcott barn catch fire? Was it only bad luck that engineered the tragedy that struck Tobin Westcott's prize cattle?
Why was a girl baby switched with the boy baby that Cassandra knew that she had given birth to?
Why did that little girl build coffins with her blocks, then put her dolls into them?
And what was the white animal that people kept seeing in the woods, fleet and solitary, appearing as a horse, with a mane that swept toward the ground. a beard like a goat, a tail like a bull, and a fine, long horn in the middle of its forehead?
Was there really a unicorn in those woods?
Who or what was Toynbee Upjohn?
It is believed that unicorns are guardians of good. Can good really triumph over evil in this world?
What IS the truth abut unicorns?
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