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After ten years of marriage, Amanda and Alex had six children. Cassie, Monty, and Brooks having previous fathers, and Haley, Eric, and the baby Elizabeth being Alex’s biological children. Alex had adopted the three older kids and loved to play with them all. It was shocking and surprising when Alex apparently committed suicide. But, how could he have slashed his wrists in the bathtub and then slit his own throat? And why did the police not recognize that a rope that had been around his hands had been removed? When Cassie led the older kids to try to contact Alex through a séance, an apparition suddenly appeared. It looked exactly like Haley, and was constantly singing while jumping a rope—a red and white striped rope with red handles. Could it be a doppelganger?? Cassie, age 15, was a bit rebellious. Although forbidden by her mother, she wanted to date Shawn, and agreed to meet him at midnight in the woods. Cassie, and later Shawn, were strangled by a rope that was nowhere to be found. Each time someone died, the apparition appeared singing its mournful song. Rachel, who had agreed to live with the family and watch the kids in the mornings, also saw the apparition and became concerned that something strange and evil was occurring. Surely, it could not be just coincidence that the new deaths followed Alex’s death so closely. What could possibly be the motivation for these violent deaths? What had really happened to Alex in the bathtub?