Fairy Tale

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load: when he was ten, his mother was killed in a hit-and-run accident, and grief drove his father to drink.

Charlie became a caretaker, and it was in that role that he met Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard and an aging dog, Radar, who is his only friend.

Because within the shed is a portal to another world, one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. A story as old as myth, spellbinding and startling, about an ordinary guy forced into the hero’s role by circumstance.