Stay Buried is a give you goose bumps horrific thriller, part supernatural, part ghost story and believe it or not, part love story. It is an absolute must read! Told between two timelines, it centers around a small forgotten town in Vermont where no resident ever leaves because well, they are afraid to! Except for one who did years ago to only have her grandchildren come back to ask some questions. Questions that hit too close to the truth about what has been going on there. It also centers around a strange plague which hit the town back in 1919 and what happened to all the residents who were living there as fear took overtook them.
In 1919 in a small town called Boone’s Ferry, Vermont, Dr. Thomas Endicott a physician and his niece/apprentice Frankie O’Malley are called out to a farm where the horses have gone crazy. Not a vet, he does the best he can. Suddenly it seems all the horses in the town are doing the same thing. Then whatever symptoms the horses seem to have begun to appear in the residence. The Knackerman who goes around to houses and picks up and collects dying animals is the first. His symptoms aggressive and he becomes dangerous to others. But when he dies, his body seems to disappear. This unfortunately is the beginning of the end of the peaceful town as they know it.
The year is now 2016 and Ashley and her brother Malcolm are mourning the loss of their grandmother. They had always been told she was from Boston and are shocked to learn she was actually born in a town called Boone’s Ferry. The same town their mother had visited two years ago and was never seen again. Why would their grandmother lie to them.
They decide to take the trip to the town to see if they can discover any information about not only their grandmother, but their mother. As soon as they enter the town, they get the distinct feeling they are not wanted. The town, still living in the dark ages has no Wi-Fi and only have rotary phones. Questions they ask go unanswered, and suddenly they begin to feel as if they are in danger. But when no one remembers ever seeing their mother two years ago they know they must leave. Something is not right with these people. But they are too late. The inhabitants must keep the secrets, and they won’t let them leave.
Stay Buried will bury you! An incredible, terrifying story with secrets galore, questions you will need (and get) answers to as well as the electrifying ending which will put you over the edge!
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Amazon.com: Stay Buried: A Novel: 9781668069455: McMahon, Jennifer: Books
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