Shade of the Tree
by:
Piers Anthony (author)
The estate was Joshua Pinson's inheritance from his oddball uncle Elijah: isolated in the deep Florida woods, with a half-built solar house stocked with enough supplies to weather a siege. Josh decided it was time to take his two young children away from New York and the memories of their...
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The estate was Joshua Pinson's inheritance from his oddball uncle Elijah: isolated in the deep Florida woods, with a half-built solar house stocked with enough supplies to weather a siege. Josh decided it was time to take his two young children away from New York and the memories of their murdered mother. Time to make a new life in sunny Florida. There was just one thing that Josh hadn't counted on.The place was haunted.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780812531039 (0812531035)
ASIN: 812531035
Publish date: May 15th 1987
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 348
Edition language: English
If you're a fan of Anthony's 'Xanth' novels, you should probably approach this one with caution. Much like his earlier 'Incarnations of Immortality' series, this is fantasy of the darkest nature. Combining both supernatural and psychological horror, Anthony weaves his tale around a haunted tree, the...
Can you say "authorial wish-fulfillment"? The main character is a self-insert for Piers Anthony himself, who moves to Florida and promptly "rescues" (by taking in and having sex with) a super-hot teenage girl young enough to be his daughter. The sex scenes are unbearable, as wise-in-the-ways-of-sexu...