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<p>on Christmas Day In 1893, Every Man, Woman, And Child In A Remote Mining Town Will Disappear, Belongings Forsaken, Meals Left To Freeze In Vacant Cabins, And Not A Single Bone Will Be Found - Not Even The Gold That Was Rumored To Have Been The Pride Of This Town.<br><br>one Hundred And Thirteen Years Later, Two Backcountry Guides Are Hired By A Leading History Professor And His Journalist Daughter To Lead Them Into The Abandoned Mining Town So They Can Learn What Happened. This Has Been Done Once Before, But The People Who Went In Did Not Come Out. Joining Them Are A Psychic And A Paranormal Photographer - The Town Is Rumored To Be Haunted. They've Come To See A Ghost Town, But What They Are About To Discover Is That Twenty Miles From Civilization, With A Blizzard Bearing Down Upon Them, They Are Not Alone, And The Past Is Very Much Alive.</p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p><p>at The Start Of This Bloated Thriller From Crouch (<i>desert Places</i>), Abigail Foster, A Manhattan Freelance Journalist, Reluctantly Agrees To Accompany Her Father, Lawrence Kendall-who Abandoned Her As A Child-and Paranormal Photographers Emmett And June Tozer, To The Remote Remains Of Abandon, Colo. The Inhabitants Of Abandon All Vanished Without A Trace On Christmas Day 1893, And Abigail Thinks She'll Write An Article On The Tozers And The Ghost Town's History. The Present-day Hikers Face A Number Of Obstacles, Starting With An Unexpected Blizzard And Including The Arrival Of Ex-marines Intent On Finding Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Gold Supposedly Stashed Somewhere In Abandon. Despite The Book's Intriguing Premise, The Action Soon Devolves Into A <i>rambo</i>-style Melee, With Enough Blood And Guts To Put Off Weak Stomachs. By The Time Abandon's Fate Is Revealed In The Overly Drawn-out Climax, Few Readers Will Care. <i>(july)</i>copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved.</p>