Reprint of the original, first published in 1836.

Four-college students on spring vacation visit the old mansion of one of their Great, Great ancestors but becomes victims of an insanely hostile predator.

“I’m nothing but yours.” They have an unspoken understanding. Nobody comes between them. They’ve been together for so long, soulmates in some aspect. Best friends of fifteen years, yet some things never change. Isabella knows the young boy she met has grown into a fine man, taking “tall, dark, and handsome” to its most literal meaning with pride. While he’s still selfish and possessive of her attention, there are moments when his devotion devours her, too. But for Mikah, it’s complicated. When he looks into the mirror, the man staring back isn’t him; he comes and goes like a ghost, lips always with a taunting smile as his eyes sketch distortions, framing depravity as innocence. It stems from love and commitment to fear. A secret won’t break them apart. No, Mikah worked too hard to become her most important person. Suspicion, doubt, and worry will have her running back to him. He can protect her and give her everything she wants. She knows no one cares about her more than he does. She should’ve noticed the subtle changes.

An eye-opening, thought enticing saga, pre-dating the stars, the galaxy and existence as we've known it rest within the provocative contents of Deranged: Volume one. Infinite darkness surrounds an awake alert child. Hearing only his breath, echoing over the ebony of perpetual blackness covering sight and movement. Sitting and pondering where to move, where to look. This awake, child murmurs the word - "Light." The sludge of infinite shadows vanishes; the blinding white of this grand light cuts and rips the vast darkness away. Revealing this alert, childlike creature is not alone...Read the rest, you have the book...

Contemporary studies have concluded that women are far less likely to kill than men and that when women do kill, they do so within the family. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913 examines the evolution of this pattern in the over 1400 trials in which women were prosecuted for homicide in London from the late seventeenth century until just before the First World War. Which deaths were considered homicides and in what circumstances women were culpable illustrates profound changes in the prevailing assumptions about women. The outcomes of trials and the portrayals of these women in the press illuminate changes in perceptions of women's status and their physical and mental limitations. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged breaks new ground in existing studies of gender and homicide, using a long time frame to discern which trends are brief anomalies and which represent significant change or continuity. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged is the first empirical, quantitatively as well as qualitatively based study of women and homicide from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. It presents new and significant conclusions on changing incidence of maternal homicides and the remarkable constancy of spousal homicides.