House of Reckoning -- John Saul

After the untimely death of her mother and the arrest of her father for killing a man in barroom brawl, fourteen-year-old Sarah Crane is forced to grow up fast. Left in the cold care of a foster family and alienated at school, Sarah befriends classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions, and the eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips, a mentor eager to nurture Sarah's talent for painting. But within the walls of Bettina's ancestral mansion, Sarah finds that monstrous images from the house's dark history seem to flow unbidden from her paintbrush--images echoed by Nick's chilling hallucinations. It seems the violence and fury of long-dead generations have finally found a gateway from the grave into the world of the living. And Sarah and Nick have found a power they never had: to take control, and take revenge.<br><br><b>Author:</b> John Saul<br><b>Publisher:</b> Ballantine Books<br><b>Published:</b> 11/23/2010<br><b>Pages:</b> 368<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.40lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.80h x 4.10w x 1.10d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780345514257<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><i>House of Reckoning</i> is <b>John Saul</b>'s thirty-sixth novel. His first novel, <i> Suffer the Children</i>, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include <i>Faces of Fear, The Devil's Labyrinth, In the Dark of the Night, Perfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Ma