When the Wind Blows: A Novel

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The terrifying bestseller from the author ofHouse of Reckoning

The children were waiting.
Waiting for centuries.
Waiting for someone to hear their cries.

Nownine-year-old Christine Lyons has come to live in thehouse on the hillthe house where no childrenhave lived for fifty years.

Now little Christie will sleep in the old-fashioned nursery on the third floor. Now Christie's terror will begin.

A sound was coming to her. Her mind began to drift . . .

Usually it came to her at night, when the wind was blowing. But today it was bright and clear; the wind was still.

And yet the sound was there. A baby, crying out for its mother.

Instinctively Diana knelt next to Christie and took the child in her arms.It's all right, she whispered.Everything's going to be all right.

Perplexed, Christie looked into Diana's eyes.I amall right, Aunt Diana. Really, I am, Christie insisted.

But you were crying. I heard you. Good girls never cry. Only bad children cry. They cry. And cry. And then they must be punished. . . .

Author Bio

John Sauls first novel,Suffer the Children, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels includePerfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, andThe Presence. He is also the author of theNew York Timesbestselling serial thrillerThe Blackstone Chronicles, initially published in six installments but now available in one complete volume. Saul divides his time between Seattle and Hawaii.