The spirit of eleven-year-old Shelley Graves, killed in a house fire, follows the family to their new home, and through her younger sister, Sara, she attempts to take revenge on the family that secretly and horribly abused her

When horror writer Scott McDowell moves to the old Graves house, he is aware of the house's violent history but never fathoms its devastating effect on his pregnant wife and two sons. Original.

SHE THOUGHT SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A SON After the hauntings, the horror, the memories sealed in flames, Allison McDowell has finally found a new home and a new father for her three young boys. It looks like a fresh start for Allison. SHE DIDN'T KNOW SHE'D SPAWNED A DEMON But the terror that she thought she'd escaped has not only followed them, but has settled in their midst—inside the body and soul of her youngest son, William Scott. It rises from the dark, immortal earth beneath the house. It envelops the heart of the innocent in a festering shell of corruption. As it fights for dominion over William Scott's spirit, it drives the four-year-old child to torment and kill others with terrifying ease. To save William Scott, to save the rest of her family, to save all those who lie, unsuspecting, in the path of an evil older than hell, Allison will have to submit to the voices that whisper from beyond the grave—and risk a mother's ultimate sacrifice.