When the Wind Blows

The terrifying bestseller from the author ofHouse of ReckoningThe children were waiting. Waiting for centuries.Waiting for someone to hear their cries. Nownine-year-old Christine Lyons has come to live in thehouse on the hillthe house where no childrenhave lived for fifty years. Now little Christie will sleep in the old-fashioned nursery on the third floor. Now Christie's terror will begin.A sound was coming to her. Her mind began to drift . . .Usually it came to her at night, when the wind was blowing. But today it was bright and clear; the wind was still.And yet the sound was there. A baby, crying out for its mother.Instinctively Diana knelt next to Christie and took the child in her arms.';It's all right,' she whispered.';Everything's going to be all right.'Perplexed, Christie looked into Diana's eyes.';I amall right, Aunt Diana. Really, I am,' Christie insisted.';But you were crying. I heard you. Good girls never cry. Only bad children cry. They cry. And cry. And then they must be punished. . . .'