AustLit

'A New Millenium

On 31 December 1999, Australian advertising creative Guy

Russell arrives in New York along with his fragile wife and their

young son. A painful tragedy has led them to swap Melbourne for

Manhattan, and seek a fresh start.

'A New Beginning.

With a new job secured at a thriving midtown agency, and

temporary residence obtained in the Upper West Side's Olcott

Hotel - a building with a morbid history of its own - Guy feels that

now is the time to lay his troubles to rest.

'A New Nightmare.

Yet something won't let him. And as a sinister force from Guy's

past begins to scratch its way back into his present, the behaviour

of his son, Callum, also starts to become increasingly disturbing

and chilling.

'As Guy begins to believe that Callum is being possessed by this

dark force, others fear he is gradually dispossessing himself of his

own sanity. And as Guy grapples with whether the evil tormenting

him is in his surroundings, his son, or his own mind, he pushes

himself ever closer to the edge.' (Publication summary)