John Fothergill West, a young man who lives with his family in the desolate moors of Scotland, gets some new neighbors. But, mysteriously, they prove anything but neighborly. West eventually learns that the family has some deep, dark secret and lives in fear of an inevitable and impending doom. What terrible secret could they be hiding?
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Online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive, viewed Oct. 30, 2012).