num_pages: 437
description: In the lineage of Peter Straub's Julia Scott Thomas Violet is the disturbing tale of a woman haunted by her long-abandoned imaginary friend. For many children the summer of 1988 was filled with sunshine and laughter. But for ten-year-old Kris Barlow it was her chance to say goodbye to her dying mother. Three decades later loss returnsher husband killed in a car accident. And so Kris goes home to the place where she first knew painto that summer house overlooking the crystal waters of Lost Lake. Its there that Kris and her eight-year-old daughter will make a stand against grief. But a shadow has fallen over the quiet lake town of Pacington Kansas. Beneath its surface an evil has grownand inside that home where Kris Barlow last saw her mother an old friend awaits her return.
language: English
title: Violet
publisher: Inkshares