New York Moments bestselling author John Connolly masterfully intertwines mystery, emotion, violence, as well as the supernatural in this natural and gripping thriller.

He continues to be told the gal’s last terms, and he feels unaccountably afraid. The dead ones. They were dead, but they had lights. Why perform the dead want light?

Three hundred years back, the settlers on the tiny Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed to their enemies and slaughtered. Since then, the island has known peace. Until now. A gang of four guys are descending on Sanctuary, intention on committing a brutal and relentless massacre. Everything that stands in their method are rookie police officer Sharon Macie and the strange, troubled official Joe Dupree. But Joe is no common policeman. He knows the island continues to be steeped in blood once which it will never again tolerate the dropping of innocent bloodstream. The music group of killers who are arranged to desecrate Sanctuary will unleash the fury of its spirits upon themselves and everything who stand by them. On Sanctuary, all hell is about to break loose…