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The orphan / Christopher Ransom.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Sphere, 2013Description: 486 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780751551303 (paperback)
  • 9781405523400 (ePub ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
"They let him in. Now he'll never let them go." -- cover -The truth is more terrible than you can imagine. Darren and Beth Dunn dreamed of having a son. So when Darren accidentally runs over and nearly kills young runaway Adam, the couple takes in the troubled child and gives him shelter in their home. With an easy smile and a loveable nature, Adam is a dream addition to the family, but as his influence in the household grows, Darren begins to find himself haunted by the image of a boy from his childhood, a boy who went missing decades earlier. As dark secrets are revealed, the Dunn's happy home becomes the hunting ground for an unspeakable evil. There's no point locking the door. There's no use shutting out the night. Because the orphan is already there. -Also issued online.
Summary: Darren and Beth Lynwood always dreamed of having a son, but when young amnesiac runaway Adam enters their lives, he brings with him a creeping darkness that threatens to engulf their family and everyone around them. When Adam's memories claw their way to the surface, Darren finds himself haunted by thoughts of his own childhood - and of a boy very much like Adam who was done an unspeakable wrong. As buried secrets are unearthed, the Lynwood's happy home becomes the hunting ground for a relentless evil and an obsession that will not die. There's no point locking the door. There's no use shutting out the night. Because the orphan is already inside.
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Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection RAN 1 Available T00547751
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The truth is more terrifying than you can imagine.

Darren and Beth Lynwood always dreamed of having a son, but when young amnesiac runaway Adam enters their lives, he brings with him a creeping darkness that threatens to engulf their family and everyone around them.

When Adam's memories claw their way to the surface, Darren finds himself haunted by thoughts of his own childhood - and of a boy very much like Adam who was done an unspeakable wrong.

As buried secrets are unearthed, the Lynwood's happy home becomes the hunting ground for a relentless evil and an obsession that will not die.

There's no point locking the door.
There's no use shutting out the night.
Because the orphan is already inside.

Dare you read to the end of The Orphan ? Discover the chilling new novel from the author of The Birthing House and The People Next Door .

"They let him in. Now he'll never let them go." -- cover -The truth is more terrible than you can imagine. Darren and Beth Dunn dreamed of having a son. So when Darren accidentally runs over and nearly kills young runaway Adam, the couple takes in the troubled child and gives him shelter in their home. With an easy smile and a loveable nature, Adam is a dream addition to the family, but as his influence in the household grows, Darren begins to find himself haunted by the image of a boy from his childhood, a boy who went missing decades earlier. As dark secrets are revealed, the Dunn's happy home becomes the hunting ground for an unspeakable evil. There's no point locking the door. There's no use shutting out the night. Because the orphan is already there. -Also issued online.

Darren and Beth Lynwood always dreamed of having a son, but when young amnesiac runaway Adam enters their lives, he brings with him a creeping darkness that threatens to engulf their family and everyone around them. When Adam's memories claw their way to the surface, Darren finds himself haunted by thoughts of his own childhood - and of a boy very much like Adam who was done an unspeakable wrong. As buried secrets are unearthed, the Lynwood's happy home becomes the hunting ground for a relentless evil and an obsession that will not die. There's no point locking the door. There's no use shutting out the night. Because the orphan is already inside.

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