Ivy
Tiny rootlets grip and crawl. Vines slither imperceptibly slow along the walls. Waxy green leaves choke and suffocate all in their path. Ivy, it creeps.After a post-war industrial boom, Ivy and her husband find themselves wealthy and ready to live out an idyllic life together. When they build...
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Tiny rootlets grip and crawl. Vines slither imperceptibly slow along the walls. Waxy green leaves choke and suffocate all in their path. Ivy, it creeps.After a post-war industrial boom, Ivy and her husband find themselves wealthy and ready to live out an idyllic life together. When they build their dream home, Ivy grows nostalgic for her namesake vines that covered her childhood home. When a shadowy gardener delivers on her desire, her life begins to spin out of control. Death lurks in every dark corner and there is no escape._________________________________________Death is a hard thing to take on faith. Ivy had a poor but happy childhood in depression-era Ohio until the economy forced the family to move from her childhood home. Many years later she is married, happy, and prosperous. The only thing missing is a little piece of the happiness from her childhood. Her husband wants to give her this dream. When a mysterious man comes to the door to deliver, she believes her life is finally fulfilled. But she finds her dream slowly becomes a nightmare as the that piece of her childhood begins to take over her life and threatens to take away everything she has.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781481943000 (1481943006)
ASIN: 1481943006
Publish date: 2013-01-20
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
This was a really good story, which reminded me, in some ways, of the movie Rose Red. Not any specifics, really, but just the flow of it, and the way it felt. A married young woman moves into her beautiful new home, and the one thing she wants is Ivy climbing up one of the outside walls like she h...