num_pages: 64
description: A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of human behavior our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses beautiful rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her lovely life a drama injection. However when the psychic visits the eerie Victorian home that has been the source of Susan's terror and grief she realizes she may not have to pretend to believe in ghosts anymore. Miles Susan's teenage stepson doesn't help matters with his disturbing manner and grisly imagination. The three are soon locked in a chilling battle to discover where the evil truly lurks and what if anything can be done to escape it.The Grownup originally appeared as What Do You Do? in George R. R. Martins Rogues anthology.
language: English
title: The Grownup
publisher: Crown