A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this
eerie tale a blend of literary fiction psychological suspense and supernatural horror from
the author of A Head Full of Ghosts. Late one summer night Elizabeth Sanderson receives the
devastating news that every mother fears: her thirteen-year-old son Tommy has vanished
without a trace in the woods of a local park.The search isnt yielding any answers and
Elizabeth and her young daughter Kate struggle to comprehend Tommys disappearance. Feeling
helpless and alone their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration: the local and state
police have uncovered no leads. Josh and Luis the friends who were the last to see Tommy
before he vanished may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State
Park when they were supposedly hanging out a landmark the local teens have renamed Devils
Rock.Living in an all-too-real nightmare riddled with worry pain and guilt Elizabeth is
wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a ghostly shadow
of Tommy materializes in her bedroom while Kate and other local residents claim to see a
shadow peering through their windows in the dead of night. Then random pages torn from Tommys
journal begin to mysteriously appearentries that reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with
the phantasmagoric the loss of his father killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier
a folktale involving the devil and the woods of Borderland and a horrific incident that Tommy
believed connects them.As the search grows more desperate and the implications of what
happened become more haunting and sinister no one is prepared for the shocking truth about
that night and Tommys disappearance at Devils Rock.
