When Scott and Linda Gardner hire a tutor for their wayward son, he's quickly embraced as part of the family. But while charming and capable, he's concealing his own dark agenda.
As each family member takes him into their confidence they feed the threat he poses - only 11 year old Ruby seems able to sense the evil in him.
In his most chilling book yet Peter Abrahams creates a living, breathing portrait of a family's hopes, fears and secrets. And of the menace they welcome into their home that threatens to destroy them.
- ISBN10 0345439384
- ISBN13 9780345439383
- Publish Date 25 June 2002 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 353
- Language English