In the blood

Stephen Gresham

United by fierce family loyalty and a murky confederate heritage, the Tracker clan is poised to tear down their ancestral Alabama home at last. No one suspects that the crumbling plantation house conceals far more than dusty heirlooms... For years, restless Jacob Tracker has longed to escape the sleepy southern town and the ne'er do well family legacy. Then comes the strange, violent death of his nephew, leaving Jacob haunted by the boy's eerily glowing red eyes and the urgency in his cryptic last words: it was in the walls... Now the Trackers must face something darker than the curse that has shadowed them for more than a century. Darker, even, than the forbidden, secret stirrings that torment Jacob. For evil has been unleashed in the demolition of the old mansion-evil fed by the one thing that irrevocably binds the Tracker family: their blood...

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