The Well [Paperback]

Mike Sirota (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 19, 2003

Bonner, California is only a memory to Greg Lowell until something mysteriously attracts him back to introduce his family to his past. His Padgett ancestors were the first settlers in Fire Valley but the curse is something Greg doesn't know about. The river that ran through his native town in Fire Valley has been still for years but is stirred by the Lowell family's visit to the valley - but not even the river that is about to flow again, can cool the cursed land. After all, blood can't put out a fire.

Product Details

• Paperback: 244 pages
• Publisher: e-reads.com (February 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075923910X
• ISBN-13: 978-0759239104
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,006,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unrelenting Suspense, August 30, 2004

By 

Henry Garfield (Belfast, Maine, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Well (Paperback)

 An innocent desire to check out his origins leads Greg Lowell and his family into a
bloody struggle for survival in Mike Sirota's tale of unrelenting suspense, The Well.
Lowell is an honest, hardworking family man, harried by the pressures of his job and his
life in crowded suburban Los Angeles. On a vacation to northern California, Greg decides to
visit Bonner, the small town where he was born and which his family suddenly left mere months
after his birth.
From the first, the town gives Greg and Janet and their teenage son and daughter, Mark
and Allison, an unusually warm welcome. Within days, the athletic Mark is approached by the
football coach, fifteen-year-old Allison meets an attractive boy, and Greg and Janet find a
beautiful, affordable house. It seems too good to be true - and it is.
Sirota guides us through the town's tortured history, centered around an old well on a
homestead pioneered by Greg Lowell's ancestors. As Greg will discover, the well was the site of
a bloody massacre that left a curse over the entire town - a curse his return has reawakened.
Expertly building the suspense, Sirota never lets the horror lapse as Lowell and his
family are drawn inexorably toward the final conflict. The Well is a masterful page-turner that
will keep you reading late into the night.
- Henry Garfield