Seed by Ania Ahlborn

This was an excellent read!! Never even heard of this author but trawling the kind of stuff I like on the amazon Kindle page came across the good reviews it gets. I like a bit of scary, spooky otherworld stuff to my stories to add that little something extra. This had it all. A great plot, not the ending I had envisaged and it did n't end well for most of the cast!! Jack Winter did n't have the best childhood but things started turning out really sour not long after he started hanging out in an old disused cemtery out the back of his Mum and Dad's trailer. After many visits he sees a haunting shadow-like creature with a long sinister jagged smile staring at him through the bushes. Tha moment shapes the rest of his life. As a grown up he thinks he has left it all behind but one night years later driving home witrh his wife and two young girls in the middle of the night he flips the truck when he sees those two eyes in the road ahead of him. In the aftermath it is clear that his 6-year old daughter saw it too. From there on the family seem haunted by strange occurances usually accompanied by scratching noises in their house walls. Now, he is not the only one it is chasing. Charlotte, starts acting somewhat schizophrenic and certainly psychotic as, as times (like her father), she seeems possessed by "Mr Scratch". In the end she does what Jack did, she murders her family and goes off to meet the devil and set up the cycle again thorugh the next generation. I ceertainly did not expect 10 year old Abigail to be hung from a tree by her sister using her own small intestines just before Charlotte rammed a knife into Jack's stomach and twisted it until he died!!! No happy endings here to say the least but a fine tale, jumps straight in at my number 2 :-)