lost boy lost girl

When a woman kills herself for no apparent reason and a week later her teenage son Mark disappears, the vanished boy's uncle, Timothy Underhill, returns to his hometown of Millhaven to discover what he can. Amadman known as the Sherman Park Killer has been haunting the neighborhood, but Underhill-familiar to Straub fans from Koko and The Throat-believes that his nephew's obsession with a local abandoned house is at the root of his disappearance. Underhill thinks Mark came across the house's last and greatest secret-a lost girl, one who coaxed Mark deeper and deeper into her mysterious domain where he must encounter a fearsome adversary. Copyright 2003 by Peter Straub. Published by Ballantine Books.