But his wife Stephanie is not experiencing life as normal. She thinks she's losing her mind. She dreams of blood running down the walls of their room, she awakes from sleepwalking standing over her sleeping son with a knife in her hand, she has a vision of one of her children suffocating. Are these premonitions of what's to come? And does it have anything to do with her repressed childhood?
To get away from all the stress, they move to a missionary's retreat in the mountains of North Carolina. It's a veritable mansion with a dark and secret past. The Miller's son Zachary finds all sorts of secret passageways and hidden rooms, but not everything he finds is exciting. When a snowstorm traps he Millers, they find themselves trapped with a killer intent on destroying the Miller's already fragile faith. They find themselves face to face with a demon in a house or horrors. The only question is, can the Miller's stay alive, both physically and spiritually?
Travis Thrasher gives us something unique in Isolation. It's the pinnacle of Christian horror, able to tell a story of demonic possession and oppression while able to keep the story within the bounds of reality. It reminds me of the novels (and movies) House by Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti and The Shining by Stephen King. In my opinion, Thrasher bests both of these stories. I read this book between 2-6 in the morning one dark and spooky night. It's genuinely scary with a genuinely redemptive message. A great read.
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