Michael McDowell's Blackwater V: The Fortune (Blackwater)

Overview: Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999. The mysterious saga of the Caskey family continues in Blackwater V: The Fortune. Already the most powerful family in Perdido, the Caskeys will soon experience success beyond their wildest imaginings. But prosperity comes with a price, and in the end even the Caskeys must pay. One woman will risk everything to rid herself of the dreams she once begged for Another will make herself brutal in business and even more unyielding with the family that loves her ... And a third will finally confront her mysterious and terrible otherness as she faces marriage and motherhood and the relentless pleading call of the dark river