#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a compelling trilogy about three brothers bound by fate, blood, and a timeless enemy. In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it’s called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys—Caleb, Fox, and Gage—went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone... It is only February, but Caleb Hawkins—descendant of the town founders—has already seen and felt the stirrings of evil. Though he can never forget the beginning of the terror in the woods twenty-one years ago, the signs have never been this strong before. Cal will need the help of his best friends Fox and Gage, but surprisingly he must rely on a stranger as well. Reporter Quinn Black came to Hawkins Hollow hoping to make its eerie happenings the subject of her new book. She too can see the evil the locals cannot, somehow connecting her to the town—and to Cal. As winter turns to spring, they will shed their inhibitions, surrendering to a desire that will grow and form the cornerstone of a group of men and women bound by the fight against what is to come from out of the darkness… Don't miss the other books in the Sign of Seven trilogy The Hollow The Pagan Stone

宿命と血の絆を軸に、七年周期で現れる根源的な悪との対峙を描く本作は、ノーラ・ロバーツらしい緻密な心理描写が光る傑作です。平穏な日常の裏に潜む闇を「運命」として引き受けた三人の男たちの覚悟と、恐怖を愛で塗り替えていく力強い再生の物語には、人間の精神の気高さという文学的な本質が脈打っています。 映像版では視覚的に迫る超自然的な脅威が圧倒的ですが、小説版の真骨頂は、登場人物たちの内面に渦巻く静かな絶望と熱い情熱の深掘りにあります。映像のダイナミズムと、テキストのみが紡ぎ出せる「土地の記憶」や緻密な伏線。両メディアを往還することで、物語の持つ凄みはより鮮明に、かつ痛切に読者の胸へと響き渡るでしょう。