The Devil's Churn - Softcover

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440217954 ISBN 13: 9780440217954

Publisher: Dell, 1996

Synopsis

Fifty years after a young man dies in Devil's Churn, a tourist attraction that is credited with being the most evil place in the sea, the man returns, alive and well, and looking no older than the day he disappeared. Original.

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In 1939, a freak storm blew across the village of Dory Cove on the Oregon coast, destroying homes and boats, and leaving three people dead. Young Spence Chadwick was swept into the sea at the treacherous Devil's Churn, a huge cleft in the rocks next to the ocean. His body was never found.

Fifty years later, Spence's old sweetheart, Addy, comes across a young man in the yard of her recently deceased mother, a young man who looks just like her beloved Spence did---fifty years ago. At first she cannot believe it is him. No one in the town can, except for one crochety old war veteran. But soon the people of Dory Cove realize that this really is Spence, though they do not know if he is a ghost, back from the dead, or a man who has slept through the last fifty years of his life, like the legendary Rip Van Winkle. Spence's return brings to the surface terrible secrets long hidden by the people of Dory Cove, and unleashes a terrifying power, born in the sea, that threatens to destroy the whole town.

In The Devil's Churn, Kristine Kathryn Rusch unveils a whole new world of terror, a secret hidden by the crashing waves of the Pacific Ocean . For Spence Chadwick, those fifty years were not a blissful dream, but a strange and frightening time. The Devil's Churn is a truly haunting tale of the mystery of the sea, and what evil it can contain.

About the Author

USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake. Her popular weekly blog on the changes in publishing has become an industry must-read. She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440217954
• ISBN 13: 9780440217954
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320