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Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. Ghost stories abound, but no one knows what really happened that terrible night thirty-five years ago when an Amish father and his four children perished-and his young wife disappeared without a trace....

The sound of a scream in the early morning dawn leads to a case that will change Kate Burkholder\"s life irrevocably . . . When the police arrive at the Amish farmstead in Painters Mill they can\"t imagine the horror that awaits them. An entire family slaughtered: the men shot, the young women tortured and killed....