After travel writer Lea Sutter barely survives a merciless hurricane on a tiny island off the South Carolina coast, she impulsively brings two orphaned twin boys home with her to Long Island. Samuel and Daniel seem amiable and intensely grateful at first, but no one in Lea's family anticipates the twins' true evil nature--or predicts that within a few weeks' time her husband, a controversial child psychologist, will be implicated in two brutal murders.

"The horror is grisly" (Associated Press) in legendary author R.L. Stine's "creepy, fun read" (Library Journal)--an homage to the millions of adult fans who grew up reading his classic series and a must-read for every fan of deviously inventive chillers.