For years, the Jackson family has vacationed at Rowena Wandigaux Lee's old Victorian house on Gull Island, a place of superstition and legend off the southern coast of the U.S. One particular summer, young Beau follows his cousin Sumter into a hidden shack in the woods-and christens this new clubhouse "Never land." Never land has a secret history, unknown to the children The rundown shack in the woods is the key to an age-old mystery, a place forbidden to all. But Sumter and his cousins gather in its dusty shadows to escape the tensions at their grandmother's house. Never land becomes the place where children begin to worship a creature of shadows, which Sumter calls "Lucy." All gods demand sacrifice It begins with small sacrifices, little games, strange imaginings. While Sumter's games spiral out of control, twisting from the mysterious to the macabre, a nightmarish presence rises among the straggly trees beyond the bluffs overlooking the sea. And when Never land itself is threatened with destruction, the children's' games take on a horrifying reality-and Gull Island becomes a place of unrelenting terror.
- ISBN10 159315609X
- ISBN13 9781593156091
- Publish Date 13 April 2010 (first published 1 April 1991)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 13 June 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Vanguard Press
- Format eBook
- Language English