The Underground Stream — Velda Johnston

AN OLD HOUSE WITH...EVEN OLDER SECRETS

For twenty-four years. Gail Loring has fought both her fear of the alcoholic haze in which the women of her family have lived and the haunting images of a man--her great-great-great-grandfather--called the Monster of Monroe Street.

Now Gail can run no longer. At her ancestral home in the summer resort town of Hampton Harbor, she vows to confront the past. She finds herself stepping back into the stream of time. She is Martha Fitzwilliam, a young wife and mother who lived here more than a hundred and fifty years ago. Gail shares Martha's secrets ... and feels her terror. A terror she must pursue to its ultimate act of shattering violence....