{"product_id":"dead-end-paperback-11","title":"Dead End - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris DiLeo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome can be a refuge . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMike Munacy was eleven years old when he watched his father commit suicide, jumping off the towering hill behind his house to die in the grass at Mike's feet. Fourteen years later, Mike and his fianc e, Dani, move into his boyhood home. Something is wrong with Mike's mother, and moments after warning, \"It came back. It never left,\" she collapses and will soon die. Things get even worse when Dani sleepwalks into the woods...\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome can be a trap . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMike unearths books and personal documents that question all Mike knows about his parents and implicate his father in a horrific act. He turns to his neighbors--an unsympathetic old man, a stand-in father-figure, and a religious zealot--but these people harbor their own strange and deadly secrets. Mike suspects they know something about why Dani now whispers nonsensical things, lashes out aggressively, and ransacks the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome can be a place of death...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a child is found burned to death, Mike believes all the horror and misery must be connected. To save Dani and stop a curse his father helped unleash, Mike must learn the secrets of the past, expose a murderer, and confront monsters both human and supernatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome can be a place of death...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter a child is found burned to death, Mike believes all the horror and misery must be connected. To save Dani and stop a curse his father helped unleash, Mike must learn the secrets of the past, expose a murderer, and confront monsters both human and supernatural.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e...and death can be welcome...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith shades of \u003cem\u003eThe Exorcist\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePet Sematary\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a story of secrets and beliefs, of the power of grief, of how we desperately seek meaning in harrowing events, and of the darker corners of hope, where happiness is only a shadow. \u003cem\u003eDead End\u003c\/em\u003e will keep you \"turning the pages...faster and faster\" until its shocking conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 332\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 27, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42300159590535,"sku":"9781950305186","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5b3911e603c10434c5af9313d5ff9a53.webp?v=1738310920","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/dead-end-paperback-11","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}