SHE WAS THEIR LITTLE GIRL--THEIR VERY OWN. BUT WHO WOULD PROTECT HER WHAT COULD SAVE HER FROM THE STEPCHILD A NOVEL OF HURTLING TERROR BY JOANNE FLUKE The stabbing nightmares... the sound of a train racing toward doom... the innocent voice of a child ... First whispering, now shrieking, invading her mind. THE STEPCHILD The child is taking over her life... drawing her inexorable to the dark secret of her past. Kathi cannot fight it. She must do what it wants. But what it wants goes beyond terror... beyond the most chilling horror... beyond the most unspeakable sin of all.