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A grieving woman alone. A stunningly handsome man in need of a wife. Indeed, the perfect match. To Judith, even Marc's five attractive children are not a burden--not until the demonic torment unleashed by the boys assaults her sanity.

Child psychologist Nicola Grainger and her husband Howard have chosen to remain childless, but when Nicola's sister and her husband are killed in a car accident in Egypt, Nicola feels duty bound to offer their young twin sons a home.

After their arrival, it quickly becomes clear that their upbringing in Egypt, their father's country, has left them spoiled and difficult to handle. They also have the disconcerting ability to finish each other's sentences and constantly answer to each other's names. At times Nicola feels that they're not two children at all, but in fact represent different aspects of one child.

As a child psychologist, Nicola knows that the boys need time to adjust to their new life, but she has failed to understand their ability to read the minds of people around them, playing on their most terrifying subconscious fears with horrific results.

In addition to these problems, Nicola finds that she is having to cope with the boys' attachment to the handsome Sergei, a friend of their father's in Egypt, who visits them regularly to provide a much needed link between their past life and their new one. Only Sergei truly understands these children, and only Sergei knows the truth about their past and what the future holds for them. As he draws Nicola into his magnetic web she is literally unable to get him out of her mind. To the astonishment of everyone, including herself, she abandons Howard and travels to Egypt with Sergei and her nephews. Once there, she is plunged into a world of dark eroticism and looming evil--the hidden, gaping gateway to hell.

The place is Lower Ditton. So peaceful. So silent. But don't let the silence deceive you.

It's the silence of the grave. The silence of a village too terrified to scream. The silence of an army of vengeful spirits who've possessed the bodies of young children. And in their lifeless, demonically red eyes, no one is too innocent to die...

The village of South Willoughby was silent as the grave when Kathryn Talkes and her young daughter Jasmine arrived for a short visit. Kathryn's mother had been taken ill and she and Jasmine had come to look after her. Jasmine soon made friends with Luke, the strange little boy next door. Luke's favorite playground was the local graveyard where his mother Tara was buried. It wasn't long before he was introducing Jasmine to another world, a world through which she could travel in her mind, a world where unknown and unexpected people were making friends with her. And all this was happening whenever she and Luke visited the graveyard. Gradually Kathryn noticed that Jasmine was changing, being taken over by another Jasmine, a girl whom she didn't love and who wasn't really her daughter...

Meg's odd-looking, white-haired twins, conceived by artificial insemination, behave like adults when they are four years old. They are strangely anti-social and derive satisfaction and "tingles" from disasters (especially bloody ones) that befall others...