The nursery rhymes warned them, but they didn't listen.When six-year-old Sandy Sommers vanishes during an Easter egg hunt in the small mountain town of Berlin, New Hampshire, Mayor Otto Finch finds himself thrust into a nightmare that will test everything he believes about good and evil.
As the search intensifies, disturbing clues children report seeing something watching them from the woods, teenagers are found covered in blood with no memory of how it happened, and deep in the forest, massive rabbit-like footprints lead to tunnels that shouldn't exist.
Otto knows this darkness—he's faced supernatural evil before during his college years, barely escaping with his life and sanity intact. Now, with his own adopted daughter Lily being stalked by whatever lurks in the shadows, Otto must confront a horrifying the creature terrorizing Berlin isn't just a monster. It's something much darker.
With the help of FBI Agent Clementine Miller and his old demonology professor Dr. Beatrix Brighton, Otto descends into a web of family secrets, witchcraft, and twisted maternal love. But as more children disappear and the creature grows bolder, Otto realizes that some evils are too deeply rooted to simply destroy—and that saving Sandy may require sacrifices no parent should ever have to make.
A chilling folk horror trilogy that transforms childhood's most innocent rhyme into pure nightmare fuel. Not recommended for readers under 18 or those who want to sleep peacefully ever again.
Complete trilogy Beware The White Rabbit, Beater Cottontail & Down The Rabbit Hole
This was a very different kind of horror story. I will never hear the nursery rhyme Bunny Foo Foo the same ever again. I used to sing it to my daughter when she was a toddler, oh my! The book was very well written with lots of macabre and disgusting action. The tale is of two witches, a naughty son of one of the witches gets turned into a horrific demon like rabbit by his own mother. The witches condemn him to the forest after his transformation and lie about his presence for 30 years. The problem is he wasn't right in the head when they turned him. Now decades later young, very young, girl has gone missing. The missing girl is the best friend of the Mayors daughter. The Mayor, a FBI agent, and a demonologist all are in the war of their lives. A horrific war to end the abominations Reign of terror before any other girls are harmed. If you like horror novels you may want to give this one a try.
I would recommend this trilogy to anyone who likes horror. It's gory, something I don't enjoy. There are animal deaths. Would I read it again. In a heart beat.