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The Home (Coming August, 2005!)
by Scott Nicholson
When twelve-year-old
Freeman Mills arrives at Wendover, a group home for troubled children, it’s
a chance for a fresh start. But second chances aren’t easy for Freeman, the
victim of painful childhood experiments that gave him the ability to read
other people’s minds.
Little does Freeman know that his transfer was made at the request of Dr.
Richard Kracowski, whose research into the brain’s electrical properties is
revealing new powers of the human mind. Kracowski is working for a secret
society called the Trust, but also has his own agenda in exploring the
nature of the soul. His experiments have an unexpected side effect, though.
The electromagnetic fields used in his experiments are summoning the ghosts
of the patients who died at Wendover back when it was a psychiatric ward.
Freeman simply wants to survive, take his medicine for manic depression, and
deceive his counselors into believing he is happy. When he meets the
anorexic Vicky, who may also be telepathic, he’s afraid some of his darkest
secrets will be uncovered. But when the other children develop their own
clairvoyant abilities, and insane spirits begin haunting the halls of
Wendover, he can’t safely hide inside his own head anymore.
Meanwhile, the Trust is installing sophisticated equipment in the home’s
basement, aggressively probing the threshold between life and death. And
they’ve brought in another scientist who doesn’t share Dr. Kracowski’s
reluctance to push the limits.
This scientist is a pioneer in ESP induction, and he performed most of his
work on a very special subject: his son, Freeman Mills.
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