Scarecrow — Richie Tankersley Cusick

FEAR THE DAY.

BEWARE THE NIGHT.

EXPECT NO MERCY...

The victim of a car accident in the Ozark hills, Pamela Westbrook awoke to find herself in the care of the Whittakers, a quaint, hard-working family whose farm was miles from the nearest neighbor. Temporarily stranded, haunted still by a tragic loss, she found a measure of peace in the quiet golden hills and the Whittakers' gentle customs. But soon she will discover the eerie rituals and dark traditions that lie beneath their old-fashioned ways. Soon she will learn the truth about their young daughter Girlie, a child possessed of uncanny, frightening gifts. She will encounter the guardians of the hills -- the scarecrows who yield a sinister, unnatural power. And she will be trapped in a nightmare of mysterious deaths, an all-consuming horror from which there is no escape...not even in madness.