The Wicked Place

<p>Hannah Douglas teaches reading. But her students aren't children. They are the worst theTexas prison system has to offer -- psychopaths, rapists and killers. Each day Hannah stands in the presence of danger as she faces her students. Soon she will face a far, far darker evil inside the vicious heart of... The Wicked Place (category: suspense/thriller)</p>

Literature & Fiction

Grace, Zaner

Contemporary

New Century Books

The Wicked Place is a 400 page suspense thriller set in Huntsville, Texas and Walker County.  It is a provocative tale of good and evil where six women - all college students from Sam Houston State University - have disappeared over the past year. A Windham school teacher (Windham is the school district inside the Texas prison system) Hannah Douglas, disappears the same day an inmate escapes from the Estelle Unit where she teaches, and she is suspected of helping him.   Hannah's husband, a detective with the Walker County Sheriff's Department, fears that his beautiful wife has been kidnapped like the other women, even though she is not a college student.  His fears, along with their 12 year-old son's, escalate when he discovers why the escapted convict was sent to prison. It is the search for Hannah and the six other women that takes the reader to the wicked place.   The author keenly weaves a desire into the reader to genuinely care for some characters and despise others, making it difficult to put the book down at the end of each chapter.   The characters are brought to life with engaging dialogue and description, while the setting and mood for this story paint a vivid picture for the reader to visualize. The Wicked Place is a unique story that delves into the human psyche at its best and at its worst. The author, a woman who currently teaches inside a men's maximum security prison for the Windham School District, knows first-hand about the life on the inside, convicted felons, about the human psyche, and about bizarre behavior.   The twists and turns in the plot keep the reader searching for answers and turning pages.  Expect to laugh, expect to cry; expect the unexpected.

<p>THE WICKED PLACE is a riveting thriller that is 400 pages of non-stop suspense. Hannah Douglas, young, beautiful, loved, teaches reading, but not to children. Her students are murderers, rapists, and thieves, and her classroom is inside a maximum security prison where she is a member of the Windham School District faculty. But her inmates aren't the ones who turn her world upside down. Reed, William and Hannah's twelve year-old son, felt something was wrong all day, and when his mother didn't come home on time, he knew something bad had happened. William, a detective with the Walker County Sheriff's Department, became worried when he discovered that his wife had stood up her best friend, Sandy, for lunch. It's when Sandy asked if Hannah would have been held up at work due to the escape from Hannah's unit that day that William got scared. The prison officials for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice think that Hannah helped the inmate escape because he used her ID card with his picture on it when he walked out the front gate. The guard saw the name, Douglas Hannah, and thought it was interesting that they had a teacher on the unit with that same name only vice-versa. The sheriff, however, is afraid that Hannah could be one of now 6 women who have disappeared in Huntsville, Texas in the past year. Could their be a connection? "The old Victorian house with its turrets, gables, and gingerbread stood atop the hill giving validation to the realms of darkness and hauntings and witches on a Halloween night. It was grand and fantastic, yet grotesque, like a gargoyle. Hannah could feel her soul dying as she breathed in the malignant air. The closer they got to the door, the more smothered Hannah felt. Never could she have believed that an edifice could foster such an animate energy, but this one did. It had a life of its own. And it was wicked." An unforgettable cast of characters spin the plot of this suspense thriller, and the web they spin catches the reader completely by surprise. Short, cliff-hanging chapters entice readers to keep reading just one more page until they too find themselves held prisoner in THE WICKED PLACE.</p>

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The Wicked Place

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