<p><b>''A really entertaining thriller [that] like Michael Crichton . . . keeps ratcheting up the suspense'' <i>Booklist</i></b><br><b>____________________________<br><br>Two sisters have always stood together. Now, they''re the only ones left.</b><br><br>In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie.<br><br>The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams.<br><br>From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the noise only gets worse . . .<br><b>________________________________<br><br>Praise for James Patterson</b><br><br><b>''The master storyteller of our times'' </b>Hillary Rodham Clinton<br><b>''Nobody does it better'' </b>Jeffery Deaver<br><b>''One of the greatest storytellers of all time'' </b>Patricia Cornwell<br><