[The String Diaries 01] • The String Diaries

**A family is hunted by a centuries-old monster: a man with a relentless obsession who can take on any identity.**

*The String Diaries* opens with a mother frantically driving through the night--her daughter asleep in the back seat, her husband bleeding out in the seat beside her. In the trunk of the car rests a cache of diaries dating back 200 years, tied and retied through generations with string.

The diaries hold the secret to the man--or thing--that has finally found and attacked them. But how can you fight an enemy that you cannot recognize? How can you escape, let alone destroy, a beast when that beast can assume the likeness of anyone, even your gravely wounded husband? Your daughter? The family friend who has entrusted you with the string diaries themselves?

*The String Diaries* is a sweeping thriller that extends from the present day, to Oxford in the 1970s, to Hungary at the turn of the 19th century, all tracing back to a boy from an ancient royal family--a boy who can change his shape, and make terrible things occur.