What if Stephen King had written Tom Sawyer, then you would have the flavor of Family Debt: The Devil's Due . It was in the year of 1929, deep in the isolated hills of Kentucky, when a simple man named Harlan Walker trekked up Black Heart Peak . It was a cursed mountain, that no locals would go near . Some say Harlan was a good man . If he was, then why did he offer his soul to the devil ? Read as Harlan is tormented by a mysterious stranger in black and learn if the faith of a child can save him . And why, over 70 years later, does an ancient evil haunt the home of the elderly Elbert Robbins ? Or does it seek the unborn child of his grand-daughter ? After reading Family Debt, you'll wonder if you are ever truly alone .