A man, a complete stranger, approaches Nelson Hitchcock and implores that Nelson comes to his assistance whilst Nelson is on a school trip to a museum.
The reward? That Nelson can receive anything his heart should desire.
What's the one thing that Nelson's heart desires? The return of his father, who vanished in mysterious circumstances three years before.
But for ever action there is a reaction and there's always a price to pay. And what heavy prices is demanded? By the end of the next Halloween, the stranger will be dead. This gives Nelson a very short time in which he must keep to the bargain he struck with the stranger.
But that's where the story becomes interesting. Because exactly 100 years previously a local police sergeant called Caleb Fitzgerald was taking part in a desperate, but utterly vain, search to find his own son, one of four children who were snatched in the night in 1903.
The only clue? A mysterious calling card left at each scene.
Whilst a family party is underway the journal of Sergeant Fitzgerald is discovered. Nelson is certain that he has left clues to help him unmask the presumed killer of the missing children.
Despite his motives for good, Nelson unwittingly is to set about the animation of a terrible blood feud that is 100 years old.
It's a supernatural vendetta where past and present life will collide together with catastrophic and cataclysmic events.
It's a somewhat dark book with elements of the paranormal and psychological thriller. It will make a very good Christmas present.
It is published by The Book Guild and costs £8.99
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