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Nove anos se passaram desde a enchente em Perdido, mas a tensão entre Elinor e Mary-Love continua cada vez mais forte, afetando todo o clã Caskey. Miriam e Frances, as duas filhas de Elinor, são criadas como rivais, em casas diferentes. E é na residência de Frances que se encontra algo sombrio e implacável, à espreita de sua próxima vítima...

Uma nova era se inicia para os Caskeys. Com sua determinação inabalável, Elinor começa a ver os frutos de anos de luta. A família nunca esteve tão unida, mesmo com os ventos da guerra se aproximando. O conflito na Europa transforma Perdido, trazendo sangue novo para a cidade. Enquanto alguns encontram o amor, outros descobrem segredos obscuros dentro de si mesmos...

Quando as águas do rio Blackwater inundam a cidadezinha de Perdido, no Alabama, a poderosa família Caskey luta para salvar sua fortuna em meio ao caos, liderada pela matriarca Mary-Love e seu filho Oscar. Eles só não contavam com a aparição de Elinor Dammert, uma mulher misteriosa que aos poucos se infiltra no seio dos Caskeys. Por trás de sua fachada encantadora, esconde-se algo perturbador, que mudará o destino deles para sempre…

After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty.

Ainda se recuperando da enchente devastadora, a cidade de Perdido se mobiliza para construir um dique que evite novas catástrofes. Porém, quando as obras começam, ocorrem eventos misteriosos, como um desaparecimento. Agora parte da família Caskey, Elinor é contra a construção e entra em choque com a sogra, Mary-Love. Entre alianças, intrigas e sacrifícios, nada está proibido nessa disputa.

Blackwater is the saga of a small town, Perdido, Alabama, and Elinor Dammert, the stranger who arrives there under mysterious circumstances on Easter Sunday, 1919. On the surface, Elinor is gracious, charming, anxious to belong in Perdido, and eager to marry Oscar Caskey, the eldest son of Perdido’s first family. But her beautiful exterior hides a shocking secret. Beneath the waters of the Perdido River, she turns into something terrifying, a creature whispered about in stories that have chilled the residents of Perdido for generations.

Bienvenidos al Triángulo Negro de la ciudad de Nueva York, el decadente reino de los fumaderos de opio, la lucha libre femenina, los garitos ruinosos, los coloridos burdeles, los abortos clandestinos, el crimen y la miseria. La emperatriz de este desapacible lugar es la temible Black Lena Shanks, quien, junto a su familia, lidera un clan de delincuentes, una pandilla de mujeres expertas en el arte de la crueldad.

Quando, nel 1871, la squattrinata e intrepida Philomela Drax riceve una lettera dal ricco nonno, che le rivela di temere per la sua vita a causa di una famiglia senza scrupoli, gli Slape, la nipote si precipita in suo soccorso. Ma il tempo stringe, perché Katie Slape, una donna crudele con il dono della chiaroveggenza e una certa abilità nello sferrare colpi di martello, sta per avere la meglio... Dalle strade polverose di un villaggio del New Jersey ai marciapiedi scintillanti di Saratoga e fino alle banchine di New York, Philo insegue Katie. O è il contrario?

Die Familien McCray und Savage freuen sich auf einen erholsamen Sommer in Beldame an der Golfküste von Alabama, wo drei viktorianische Villen am Strand stehen. Zwei der Häuser sind bewohnbar, während das dritte langsam und geheimnisvoll unter einer riesigen Düne aus feinem weißen Sand begraben wird. Obwohl es schon lange sich selbst überlassen wurde, ist das Haus nicht ohne Leben. Drinnen lauert etwas Tödliches.

In Perdido, Alabama, the Caskey family have endured; some face death whilst others welcome new life. Unexpected alliances have formed, bitter conflict divides former friends. Hardened by years of experience, Miriam, now head of the family business, is relentless in her pursuit of wealth. And when she makes a surprising discovery beneath their lands, it is not just the Caskey family that benefits, but the whole town. But will this sudden fortune be enough to lay to rest the ghosts of the past? And how long before nature comes to reclaim its debt?

Even if the years weigh heavily on their shoulders, the Caskey family now enjoy wealth way beyond their wildest dreams. Parties, lavish receptions and social gatherings give a rhythm to their existence, their days spent in carefree abandonment. But the past is not forgotten and a dark presence looms over Perdido, its inhabitants and its rivers. The time of reckoning has come.

When a rifle range accident leaves Dean Howell disfigured and in a vegetative state, his wife Sarah finds her dreary life in Pine Cone, Alabama made even worse. After long and tedious days on the assembly line, she returns home to care for her corpselike husband while enduring her loathsome and hateful mother-in-law, Jo. Jo blames the entire town for her son’s mishap, and when she gives a strange piece of jewelry to the man she believes most responsible, a series of gruesome deaths is set in motion.

A new era has begun for the Caskey family. Elinor’s relentless determination and the years of struggle are finally beginning to bear fruit: old hostilities have faded and the town is ripe for change. The conflict in Europe has brought new blood to Perdido, men arriving from far afield wanting to ingratiate themselves with the powerful family. But tangling with the Caskeys comes at a cost, and soon they must ask themselves how close is too close…

Perdido, Alabama, has scarcely recovered from the floods that devastated the community. Now a scheme to build a levee is dogged by a series of mysterious events: unpredictable currents in the river, worrying disappearances. Meanwhile in the Caskey family, Marie-Love, the matriarch, continues her machinations against Elinor, her strange daughter in law. Plots, unholy alliances, sacrifices - in the struggle between them, nothing is off limits. In Perdido, the changes will be profound; the consequences irreversible.

As the dark and menacing waters of the local river submerge Perdido, a small town in the south of Alabama, the Caskeys - a family of rich landowners - must confront the tide of damage caused by the flood. Led by Mary-Love, the powerful matriarch, and by Oscar, her devoted son, the family must pick itself back up. But what they haven't anticipated is the sudden appearance of Elinor Dammert - a mysterious but seductive young woman with a troubling past. Her sole ambition appears to be to infiltrate the very heart of the Caskey clan...

Perdido, 1928. Torn apart by the continuing tensions between Mary-Love and her daughter-in-law Elinor, the Caskey family must also confront other crises. As the economy plummets and relationships sour, something sinister is prowling the darkest recesses of the Caskey household. Patient, implacable, waiting to catch its next victim in its deadly web…

Die Blackwater-Saga gilt als eine der besten unheimlichen Erzählungen aller Zeiten. Ein über mehrere Generationen verteiltes Familienfresko. Die Publikation war ein solcher Erfolg, dass sie Stephen King (ein Bewunderer der Werke von Michael McDowell) dazu inspirierte, The Green Mile ebenfalls in sechs Bänden zu veröffentlichen. Blackwater ist anders als alles, was du je gelesen hast. Eine Familiensaga mit einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre schleichenden Grauens.

Welcome to the Black Triangle, New York's decadent district of opium dens, gambling casinos, drunken sailors, gaudy hookers, and back room abortions. The queen of this unsavory neighborhood is Black Lena Shanks, whose family leads a ring of female criminals-women skilled in the art of cruelty. Only a few blocks away, amidst the elegant mansions and lily-white reputations of Gramercy Park and Washington Square, lives Judge James Stallworth.

Die Blackwater-Saga gilt als eine der besten unheimlichen Erzählungen aller Zeiten. Ein über mehrere Generationen verteiltes Familienfresko. Die Publikation war ein solcher Erfolg, dass sie Stephen King (ein Bewunderer der Werke von Michael McDowell) dazu inspirierte, The Green Mile ebenfalls in sechs Bänden zu veröffentlichen. Blackwater ist anders als alles, was du je gelesen hast. Eine Familiensaga mit einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre schleichenden Grauens. Blackwater erzählt von dem verschlafenen Perdido in Alabama und den Schrecken, die Elinor Dammert über die Familie Caskey und die Stadt bringt.

Die Blackwater-Saga gilt als eine der besten unheimlichen Erzählungen aller Zeiten. Ein über mehrere Generationen verteiltes Familienfresko. Die Publikation war ein solcher Erfolg, dass sie Stephen King (ein Bewunderer der Werke von Michael McDowell) dazu inspirierte, The Green Mile ebenfalls in sechs Bänden zu veröffentlichen. Blackwater ist anders als alles, was du je gelesen hast. Eine Familiensaga mit einer einzigartigen Atmosphäre schleichenden Grauens.