Orem Library

Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle of the night. She hears a disturbingly familiar noise: it's the tread of footsteps, unusually heavy and slow, coming up the stairs. Terrified, she quietly wakes her children and hustles them into a tiny, secret room concealed behind a wall. There they hide as the intruder tries to tempt the children out with promises and scare the mother into surrender....

During the heat wave of the summer of 1984, Fielding Bliss became friends with the devil, a bruised and tattered thirteen-year-old boy named Sal, who was welcomed into his family. Tensions rise with the temperature as strange accidents start to occur until a fanatic drives the town to the brink of a catastrophe that will change their sleepy Ohio town forever.

On Christmas Eve, eighty-five-year-old Miriam Gardiner walks onto the vast frozen river behind her home. As a younger woman, she used to steal out on winter nights to meet her lover, walking straight across the ice to their secret meeting place. She knows the way--but not the year. Miriam, her mind clouded by dementia, doesn't hear the snap of thin ice until it's too late. Was it an accident? Suicide? Or worse: did someone lure the old woman to her...

Linda has lived in a quiet neighborhood ever since fleeing the dark events of her childhood in Wales. Now she sits in her kitchen, wondering if this is all there is--pushing the vacuum around and cooking fish sticks for supper is a far cry from the glamorous lifestyle she sees in the glossy catalogues coming through the mail slot addressed to the previous occupant, Rebecca. Terry isn't perfect--he picks his teeth, tracks dirt through the house, and...