Girl from the Well

Okiku wants vengeance ... and she gets it. Whenever there's a monster hurting a child-the same way she was hurt three hundred years ago in Japan-her spirit is there to deliver punishment. But one American boy draws her like no other. The two are pulled into a world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from the American Midwest to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, Japan. The boy is not a monster, but something evil writhes beneath his skin, trapped by a series of intricate tattoos. Can Okiku protect him? Or is her presence only bringing more harm?

The companion novel to Rin Chupeco's The Girl from the Well, which Kirkus called a "Stephen King-like horror story"After barely escaping the evil spirit that tried to destroy his soul, Tark vows to spend his life protecting the innocent. So when his mentor goes missing on a ghost-hunting expedition, Tark and Okiku join the search. But the Suicide Forest has seduced thousands of people to their deaths over the centuries and is thick with their sorrows.With time running out and danger at every turn, Tark will either become a hero-or die trying.|1. Tag2. Girls3. Hunters4. The Party5. The Date6. Aftermath7. Clues8. The Diary9. The Village10. The Eye11. Purpose12. Maternal Bones13. The Caves14. A Reunion15. Last Words16. The Pit17. The Silkworm Tree18. The Eighth Ritual19. Unnatural Changes20. Mourning21. Peace