Book description
A mysterious white horse, a quirky parrot, a haunted house, an
ancient curse, something frightening in the attic... A summer holiday
turns into a nightmare when the Mallory family rents a shabby cottage
in a remote corner of Ontario's Rideau Lakes. Seventeen-year-old Chip
Mallory and his sixteen-year-old sister Lee are persuaded to go along
on "one last family vacation" with their parents before they
get caught up in their own lives again.
But when a great storm comes up, and the family moves to an island in
the lake, all their technology can't save them from an encounter with
an ancient curse. Chip and Lee are drawn into a complex web of past
and present; they struggle to make sense of these ancient mysteries,
aided by a visiting anthropologist, a poor backwoods girl, and a
beautiful young woman who lives on an island with her reclusive and
powerful grandfather.
Tom Henighan's numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry
include The Maclean's Companion to Canadian Arts and Culture, The
Well of Time, and the YA novel Viking Quest (2001). He
lives in Ottawa, and teaches at Carleton University.
