virago reviewed on 9/26/2018 + 267 more book reviews

Reread.

After the tragedy that killed Germaine Wagner and left her mother Clara incapable of speech, the town is even more convinced that there is a curse on Blackstone. Rebecca has been kidnapped by the dark figure and hidden deep inside the Asylum. No one knows what has happened to her and while half the town believes she is responsible for the what happened to the Wagners, the other half believes that something terrible has transpired.

Oliver is still having terrible headaches, which he assumes are repressed memories trying to fight their way to the surface. He's worried sick about Rebecca. Oliver knows that everything leads back to the Asylum and something that happened when he was a child, it's up to him to remember. He just doesn't know how.

Meanwhile an antique stereoscope has found it's way into the home of Ed Becker, a former criminal attorney, who gave up that lifestyle to return to Blackstone as a simple civil lawyer. After staring into the stereoscope, Ed begins having nightmares of cases past. Cases that he shouldn't have won. Cases that set the worst kinds of people free. Then his dreams begin coming true. Before long, the Beckers are another family left broken by the curse of the asylum.

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