Book description
For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children,
the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new
beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an
unending parade of misery and disaster.
Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevie retreats further and further
into himself - and into a strange computer game and a group of imaginary
friends.
But there is something eerie about his loyal, invisible new playmates:
each shares the name of a child who has recently vanished from the
sleepy Southern town. And terror grows for Step and DeAnne as the truth
slowly unfolds. For their son has found something savagely evil . . .
and it's coming for Stevie next. Orson Scott Card is the award-winning
author of the novels ENDER'S GAME, ENDER'S SHADOW and SPEAKER FOR THE
DEAD, which are widely read by both adults and younger readers. He lives
in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife and three children.
