"Hace mucho tiempo, Nathan vi�va en una casa de campo con un padre maltratador, y nunca le ha contado a su familia lo que ocurr�i al�l. Hace mucho tiempo, Maddie era una n�ia que jugaba a las m�uecas en su habitac�in y vio algo que no tend�ra que haber visto... Y ahora intenta recordar aquel momento trau�mtico creando unas esculturas inquietantes. Hace mucho tiempo, algo siniestro y voraz deambulaba por los �tneles y las mont�aas y las minas de car�bn de su ciudad natal en la zona rural de Pensilvania. Ahora, Nate y Maddie Graves es�tn casados y han regresado a ese lugar con su hijo, Oliver. Y ahora, lo que ocurr�i hace mucho tiempo ha empezado a ocurrir otra vez... Y le es�t ocurriendo a Oliver. Conoce a un chico muy extra�no que se convierte en su mejor amigo, un chico con secretos y afinidad por la magia negra. Esa magia negra los lleva al epicentro de una batalla entre el bien y el mal, un enfrentamiento por conservar el alma de la familia... Y puede que incluso la del mundo entero. Pero la familia Graves tiene un arma secreta: el amor que se profesan los unos a los otros." -- Back cover. Long ago, Nathan Graves lived in a house in the country with his abusive father--and has never told his family what happened in that house. Long ago, Maddie Graves was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn't--and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Now Nate and Maddie are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver. And now what happened long ago is happening again . . . and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own, and a taste for dark magic. This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family--and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this fight: their love for each other"-- Provided by publisher.
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