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“A mother’s love is a magical thing. It was all she had to keep her sane and she clung to it like a life preserver.” Sarah wakes up one morning and doesn’t recognize her own daughter. Emma has developed a voracious appetite along with a penchant for coming home covered in blood. Her little girl isn’t her little girl anymore. Mrs. McGregor is closely acquainted with evil. She recognizes it immediately from her perch next door as neighborhood animals keep going missing. Jess loves her sister, Sarah, and her niece, Emma, with her entire heart and soul. She knows something is different the moment she crosses the threshold into their home. The air is stifling, and the house is weeping with malcontent. From the very marrow of this seemingly innocent house to the surrounding streets, good and evil are locked in an ancient battle of eternal opposition. This is the most important fight of Sarah’s life. At stake is her daughter’s soul. Can the illuminating light of love shine through the dark shroud of pervasive evil or will malevolence endure?
“And so the story went for the house at the end of the lane. It fed on death and greed and misery. Houses are built to protect what lives within their walls, but if the wrong people are in charge of building those walls, or if the wrong circumstances take place inside them, then houses can grow cruel and dark, like a human can. With too much abuse and neglect, a house can even grow evil.” Philip Moraley has it all. The perfect spouse, Abagail. The perfect children, Phillipina, Thomas, and James. All safely nestled inside of the perfect house; until his cousin, Joanna Moraley, arrives for a Christmas visit that twists this fairytale estate into a gruesome nightmare. From its rebirth into darkness as a home for wayward pregnant girls, to its return to the folds of its founding family, generations have fed this House blood, despair, tears, and anguish. Its sights are now set on the latest household of Moraley’s as they cross the threshold into its malevolent clutches. Is their love strong enough to lead the House and its inhabitants back into the light?
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The Mormon church today is led by an elite group of older men, nearly three-quarters of whom are related to current or past general church authorities. This dynastic hierarchy meets in private; neither its minutes nor the church's finances are available for public review. Members are reassured by public relations spokesmen that all is well and that harmony prevails among these brethren. But by interviewing former church aides, examining hundreds of diaries, and drawing from his own past experience as an insider within the Latter-day Saint historical department, D. Michael Quinn presents a fuller view. His extensive research documents how the governing apostles, seventies, and presiding bisho...