As Tara accepts counseling with an eccentric psychiatrist and a stranger lurks about, Peter and Richie begin to wonder if her fantastical story may actually hold some truth.

The two men haltingly take up their friendship where it left off, and Richie realizes that he still loves Tara. Peter breaks a 10-year silence with his former best friend, Richie Franklin, who as Tara’s boyfriend at the time of her disappearance was the main suspect, to let him know that Tara’s back. When 35-year-old Tara Martin shows up on her parents’ doorstep two decades after she disappeared, unkempt and looking oddly as if she’s barely aged, her older brother, Peter, a farrier married with four kids, can’t hide his hurt, angry feelings-but they grow even stronger when Tara offers a preposterous story about riding away with a man on a white horse as an explanation for her disappearance. And as the couple begin to witness unsettling events neither one can ignore, they are forced to confront a frightening truth about the silent land they now inhabit.Īward-winning author Graham Joyce has written a mysterious masterpiece, a tour de force that will thrill fans of Peter Straub and the hit television show Lost.Joyce (The Silent Land) blends reality with fantasy in this modern-day fable. They are trapped by the storm, completely isolated, with another catastrophic avalanche threatening to bury them alive.

An evacuation as sudden and thorough as this leaves Jake and Zoe to face a terrifying situation alone. Their hotel is devoid of another living soul.

Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig their way out from under the snow-only to discover the world they knew has been overtaken by an eerie and absolute silence. In the French Pyrenees, a young married couple is buried under a flash avalanche while skiing. a daring and powerful novel about love, loss, and rebirth. Award-winning novelist and cult favorite Graham Joyce transports readers to a mysterious world of isolation and fear with a hypnotically dark story about a young couple trapped by an avalanche in the remote French Pyrenees.

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