by William Cross
Jove, 1994

Alex and Jenny Gregory were searching for the American dream. A place to settle down and raise children. A small rural town where Alex could work on the police force and Jenny could teach. They thought they found it is Picksburg, West Virginia, population 1, 458. . . They were wrong. Because deep in the backwoods there lived a family with a different kind of American Dream. And there, in the isolated mountains, it was so easy to make their twisted dream a reality. No one could hear the growling of guard dogs, the rattle of chains, or the screams of prisoners. But soon, Alex and Jenny will hear it all. . . Because it’s not a dream. It’s their worst nightmare come true.