Fiction (fic)

A wealthy brewer's body is found in a cabin in the Adirondacks. The mystery is solved and a playwright living on the property relays the tale.

Lizzy, 14 and Tim, 13 are left on their own to survive the winter storms in the Adirondack Mountains after their father dies in a canoe accident.

Eve Tilden Klein, a scion of an upstanding Connecticut family, finds that the clairvoyance she has inherited from her mother is more a curse than a blessing.

Professor Reis Welling's life is idyllic. A respected professor of botany at Cornell, he's been granted early tenure, has received a grant to carry out field research in the Adirondack Forest, and has met Ellen, the love of his life. Everything is perfect-- that is until the forest turns its back on him, department heads start spying on him, Ellen starts lying to him, and all start transmitting thoughts into his head. Herein lies Reis's slow and insidious descent into a vicious and damaging world of mental illness.

Life in a seemingly placid upstate New York town turns to turmoil when the prodical son of its leading family returns home.