Bag of Bones
Published: 21, October 2008
Author: Stephen King
Genre: American, Fiction, Ghost, Horror, Literary, Literature, Supernatural, Suspense, Thriller
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Summary
After his pregnant wife Jo dies abruptly of a brain aneurysm, the narrator Mike Noonan, a successful author, suffers from major writer's block.
Mike is troubled by nightmares set in his vacation cottage in TR-90 (an unincorporated town called after its map coordinates), Maine, four years later, still grieving.
He chooses to face his worries and relocates to "Sara Laughs," his holiday home on Dark Score Lake.
He meets Kyra, a 3-year-old daughter, and her young widowed mother, Mattie Devore, 20, on his first day.
Max Devore, Mattie's father-in-law, is an aging wealthy man who would go to any length to acquire custody of his granddaughter, Kyra.
Mike employs John Storrow, a custody lawyer, for Mattie because he is drawn to Kyra and Mattie.
Mike picks up his pen again, and he learns that Jo's spirit is assisting him in solving the mystery of Sara Tidwell, a blues singer who haunts the mansion.
He also discovers that in the year leading up to her death, Jo visited the town regularly without telling him.
Mike starts having unsettling nightmares and visions and feels he and Kyra have a psychic connection.
Mike lives thanks to the aid of his wife's ghost, which Max and his personal assistant, Rogette, attempted to drown.
That same night, Max unintentionally commits suicide. Mike notices a trend when he notices that local residents' names begin with "K" or "C" and learns about relatives who drowned as children.
Mattie tries to seduce Mike as Storrow and the private detective he hired are celebrating the end of the custody fight.
While they are hugging, a drive-by shooting occurs in Mattie's trailer, wounding Storrow and the detective and murdering Mattie.
With Mike's assistance, the detective is able to murder the driver and incapacitate the gunman.
As a heavy rainstorm hits, Mike snatches Kyra and drives back to his house. The shooter's friends try to intervene, but they refuse to accompany him to "Sara Laughs."
Mike is tortured by Sara's spirit and feels compelled to drown Kyra and commit suicide. Jo's spirit intervenes and draws his attention to the manuscript he is working on.
There are clues in the papers that lead Mike to records Jo had buried, including a genealogy that shows Mike's family connection to one of the local families.
Several families with roots in the area had firstborn children named "K" who were all killed; Kyra, a descendent of Max Devore, is the next in line to die.
Mike and Jo's kid would have been the next firstborn child in the family line with a "K" name, according to the genealogy.
Mike knows that this is Sara Tidwell's curse as a result of whatever that happened to her.
He departs in quest of Sara's tomb but is interrupted by the spirits of various elderly families.
In a vision, he learns that these guys raped and murdered Sara and drowned her son Kito in the lake; all of the "K" children who perished were their descendants.
Mike arrives at Sara's grave and destroys her bones, putting an end to the curse. When Mike returns home, he sees that Rogette has kidnapped Kyra.
He pursues them to the lake, where Rogette is knocked into the water by Mattie's spirit. Rogette tries to drag Mike in with her, but the storm's wreckage from the dock catches her. Mattie's spirit bids Mike and Kyra farewell.
Mike has retired from writing and is hoping to adopt Kyra, according to the novel's epilogue.
Because he is a single, unrelated man, things are more complicated, and the adoption has taken longer than expected.
The adoption's fate is left uncertain at the conclusion, although the reader is encouraged to believe it will be good.
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