Vroege RecensentenRod Karn

Daniel Kramer is recovering from a divorce and a great personal tragedy. One night, he rescues a beautiful woman about to tumble onto the Manhattan subway tracks. He dares to imagine that this chance encounter might change his life. It does, but not in a way he ever could have imagined.

Beneath the civilized veneer of New York City lurks a sickness that has been quietly spreading. Those who become infected develop strange appetites and prey on others with cunning and without remorse. As Daniel is drawn into this dark mystery, he discovers that time is running out to thwart their terrible plot.

There’s something wrong with the old rental house at 66 Bucknam Road. Cassie Glenn can feel it right away. Her husband Trevor has persuaded her to spend the summer there with their two young children, in rural Long Island, before he starts a teaching job in the fall. Trevor is scuffling, trying to find direction in his life after being laid off as a petroleum geologist. It doesn’t take long before Cassie feels a profound sense of unease. An old woman appears in the driveway, staring at the house, then hurries away. After the ice cream truck passes, her four-year-old son Matthew briefly goes missing, then she finds him sprawled outside, face down, beside the road. Her headstrong eight-year-old daughter Rachel finds two halves of a butterfly. When pieced together, the pattern on the wings looks like a screaming face. Something in the house is resonating with a terrible event from her past. But what, and why? Finding the answer to this mystery consumes her. Slowly, she learns the full story of the horror that the house is concealing. And when she does, it’s enough to almost tear her family apart.