num_pages: 300
description: When Bellamy McGuire is offered a summer job babysitting for the wealthy Baldwin family shes reluctant to accept. After all everyone in town knows about the mysterious happenings at the mansion on the hillincluding the sudden disappearance of the Baldwins eldest son Tate. The former football star and Golden Boy of Wellhollow Springs became a hermit at the age of sixteen and no one has seen or heard from him since. Rumors abound as to why with whisperings about a strange illness that has caused deformityturned him into a real-life monster. Bellamy wants to dismiss these rumors as gossip but when shes told that if she takes the job she must promise to never ever visit the 3rd floor of the mansion she begins to wonder if there really is some dark truth being hidden there.Tates condition may not be the only secret being kept at Baldwin House. There are gaps in the familys financial history that dont add up and surprising connections with unscrupulous characters. At night there are strange noises unexplained cold drafts and the electricity cuts out. And then there are the rose petals on the staircase. The rose petals that no one but Bellamy seems to be able to see. The rose petals that form a trail leading right up to the 3rd floor past the portrait of a handsome young man and down a dark hallway where she promised she would never ever goAs Bellamy works to unravel the mysteries of Baldwin House and uncover the truth about Tate she realizes that she is in way over her head in more ways than one. Can her bravery and determination help to right the wrongs of the past and free the young man whose story has captured her heart?
language: English
title: Bellamy and The Brute
publisher: Clean Teen Publishing