Nightmare

Author: Higgins
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Historian and best-selling author Joan Sheridan experienced numerous hardships at the time of her high school graduation—her parents' divorce, her boyfriend's death in a car accident, and more. After giving birth to her illegitimate daughter Lily, she left her hometown, a place filled with sorrow. Twenty years later, Joan is invited back to her hometown to attend her high school graduation reunion. Just before the reunion, Hollywood agent Allison Kendall drowns in her home's swimming pool. Coincidentally, she is the fifth woman to die mysteriously from the same graduating class. Upon returning to her hometown, Joan receives an anonymous fax from her daughter Lily and a hairbrush made from Lily's hair, which deeply unsettles her. The night before the memorial service for Allison, the class beauty Laura suddenly disappears mysteriously. Within days, several more murders occur in the town, with an owl pin left at each crime scene. Over the past twenty years, six women who had mysteriously disappeared one after another had all sat at the same lunch table, and Joan is the last surviving member of that table. Is Joan the next target of the serial killer who calls himself the "Owl"? Can the police solve the mystery successfully? Can Lily escape the threat and reunite with her biological mother? Historian and best-selling author Joan Sheridan experienced numerous hardships at the time of her high school graduation—her parents' divorce, her boyfriend's death in a car accident, and more. After giving birth to her illegitimate daughter Lily, she left her hometown, a place filled with sorrow. ...