A chilling novel of psychological suspense.
Teenager Julia Bell was held captive for years in a basement room. But when she was finally freed, something awful came out of that room along with her.
Journalist Robert Graham locates the adult Julia living as a recluse in Portland. Graham wants to do a book on her ordeal, but he gets entangled in a dangerous mystery. A man who got too close to Julia is now missing and the police are investigating. Julia is getting ugly, anonymous threats from someone. And Julia Bell herself, after her earlier prolonged trauma, may still be a deeply disturbed woman.
As Graham digs deeper into Julia's strange life, he unwittingly opens a door onto a violent new nightmare.