or so it may seem by the brutality in this book. Tabitha is more of a "literary" writer than her famous husband, so after two ot three novels that didn't sell very well, she wrote this and even though I read it yeara ago when it came out, I still remember it was something about a mother and her sons trapped in cabin or something. And some people break in and torture the family.Not at ALL like her previous books or those that followed. And not very good, either.I think the best book she wrote was CARETAKES.