Lush, a deceptively tranquil, the secluded islandbasks in splendid isolation off the South Carolinacoast--as does the Devereaux mansion, a once-greatplantation house now crumbling amidst the ancientoaks. Now, for the first time in two decades,Kevin Devereaux has returned here with his wife andchildren to visit Kevin's hated, and frighteningmother. She said she was ill--but is that really whythe old woman has summoned the son she has notseen in so many years? Suddenly, horribly, one ofthe Devereauxs is going to die. And now, all thedark secrets of this once-proud family will emergeto wrap their evil around the unsuspectingchildren. Until, in the shadowed corridors anddust-covered rooms of the decaying old house, they learn thetrue terror of The Unloved.From the Paperback edition.