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From award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a dark psychological thriller of madness, love and turning 18 -- and murder.
In the novella PURITY, the darkest force is love.
Owen Crites has watched Jenna Montgomery flower into a beautiful young woman as they've practically grown up together through the summers; Owen is the ...
Limited time only price for this full-length novella!
From award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a dark psychological thriller of madness, love and turning 18 -- and murder.
In the novella PURITY, the darkest force is love.
Owen Crites has watched Jenna Montgomery flower into a beautiful young woman as they've practically grown up together through the summers; Owen is the gardener's son who will one day become groundskeeper of the Montgomery summer estate on Outerbridge Island.
Now, when they both reach adolescence, Owen begins to understand that Jenna is meant for a different life in adulthood than he is destined for -- and he knows that he must somehow keep her on the island until she no longer wants to leave.
Enter Jimmy McTeague, the young tennis star from Manhattan, heir to a sporting goods fortune, who has also come to spend the summer with the Montgomery's -- and soon, a triangle of love, hate, and the darkest of human impulses emerges.
"Clegg turns the screws dexterously in this sleek, multifaceted suspense story...Clegg brings them together in a vacation paradise saturated in alcohol, entitlement and hypocrisy..." -- Publisher's Weekly
Praise for Clegg's fiction from bestselling authors:
"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."
— Bentley Little, author of The Policy
"Clegg delivers!"
— John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth.
"A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
New York Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters.
"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."
— Peter Straub
author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the New York Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King)
"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."
— Dean Koontz
"Clegg is one of the best!"
— Richard Laymon
"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!"
— Robert R. McCammon
author of The Queen of Bedlam and Speaks The Nightbird.
Type & Subject: fiction, psychological suspense, thriller, dark thriller, mystery, horror, suspense, novella, identity, sociopath, murder, teen, bisexual, mystery & thriller, gay/lesbian, dark romance, summer.
Douglas Clegg is the award-winning and bestselling author of horror, fantasy, and suspense fiction, including The Priest of Blood, The Lady of Serpents, Afterlife, The Hour Before Dark, and Mordred, Bastard Son among many others.
He also pioneered the e-book and e-serial on the internet, and launched the internet's first publisher-sponsored serial novel in early 1999. Additionally, his novella, Purity, became the world's first m-book—an ebook for mobile phones in the year 2000.
His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shocker Award. He was born in Virginia, but currently lives with his better half, on the coast of New England along with several wild things: a cat, a dog, a few mice and a couple of rabbits.
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Limited time only price for this full-length novella!From award-winning author Douglas Clegg comes a dark psychological thriller of madness, love and turning 18 -- and murder.
In the novella PURITY, the darkest force is love.
Owen Crites has watched Jenna Montgomery flower into a beautiful young woman as they've practically grown up together through the summers; Owen is the ...