Midnight Rain

Midnight Rain

MIDNIGHT RAIN is a dark coming-of-age novel in the vein of Robert McCammon's BOY'S LIFE and Stephen King's THE BODY (STAND BY ME). It is a tale of growing up in the South, a reflection of boyhood and all its wonders, and the story of how one boy deals with a terrible secret that threatens to tear apart both his family and hometown.<br /> <br />1977... In a small town called Midnight, North Carolina, twelve-year-old Kyle Mackey ventures toward a strange new world called manhood... Kyle's older brother Dan is going away to college. The night before Dan's flight leaves for Florida, Kyle visits what he calls his "Secret Place" -- an old shack in the woods bordering Midnight. <br /> <br />But Kyle stumbles upon something that proves his favorite spot in the world is neither as private nor as innocent as he once thought... <br /> <br />It begins with the naked, battered corpse of a young woman. And, standing over her, a man Kyle knows...