They call it the Academy.
A secluded, cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast.
A school for children gifted - or cursed - with extraordinary minds.
Children soon to come under the influence of an intelligence even more brilliant than their own - and unspeakably evil.

For within this mind a dark plan is taking form.
A plan so horrifying, no one will believe it.
No one but the children.
And for them it is already too late.
Too late, unless one young student can resist the seductive invitation that will lead...
into the shadows.

House of Reckoning is John Saul's thirty-sixth novel. His first novel, Suffer the Children, published in 1977, was an immediate million-copy bestseller. His other bestselling suspense novels include In the Dark of the Night, Perfect Nightmare, Black Creek Crossing, Midnight Voices, The Manhattan Hunt Club, The Right Hand of Evil, Guardian, and Faces of Fear. Saul divides his time between Seattle, Washington, and Hawaii.