About the book

About Hallock's Mill

Ashley Carroll is a bright, beautiful, and confident young woman who is haunted by death. Following the unsolved murder of her diplomat father and anonymous threats on her own life, she and her family flee their stately home in Washington DC and move to an old farmhouse in New York's Lower Hudson Valley. But instead of finding refuge there, she must face a harrowing ordeal of terror unlike anything she has experienced before. A riveting psychological thriller, Hallock's Mill moves inexorably toward a life-or-death confrontation between a strong young woman and a vicious young man who both hates and desires her. While the novel is action-packed, it deals with grief, loneliness, moral dilemmas, and the general ambivalence and self-doubt of young people coming of age in a world where uncertainty seems to be the only constant. The interplay of courage and fear, innocence and cynicism, kindness and cruelty, faith and despair, provide dramatic tension-but they play out against a backdrop of bawdy humor, wild pranks, and budding romance that balance the darker elements of the story.

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