Publisher's Synopsis
The Miseries - Book 1: The Hanging Tree
1992 - Springfield - Illinois: Jack Brooks thought he had left the nightmares of his childhood behind-until one fateful weekend when a student lures him into the school's cellar, reawakening the horrors he thought he had escaped. Forgotten nightmares resurface, blurring the line between reality and delusion. As a child, Jack endured unimaginable abuse at the hands of his father, who was later found hanging from a rope. Raised by his domineering sister Rose, Jack has always questioned the truth-about his mother's mysterious disappearance and the dark secrets Rose may be hiding.
Now an adult, Jack works as a gardener at his old high school, a place still haunted by the memory of gruesome murders committed by a notorious serial killer. Though the killer was found hanged, doubts linger-was he really responsible, or is the actual murderer still at large?
Trapped in the cellar over the weekend, Jack's fragile mind unravels. The demons of his past return, but are they the manifestations of hidden psychoses or something far more sinister?
As disturbing memories resurface, Jack is drawn into a web of chilling events: the suspicious suicide of the student who trapped him, a determined detective reopening old wounds, and shocking revelations that threaten to destroy everything he thought he knew.
Are the horrors Jack faces creations of his fractured mind, or is a darker force from his past still lurking, waiting to strike again?
The Miseries - Book 1: The Hanging Tree is the first part of a thrilling trilogy. Begin your journey into madness today.
