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No more than a dark pencil line on a blank web page. A horizon series, maybe. But also a slot machine for blackness to pour through…

A terrible construction site accident needs Edgar Freemantle’s correct arm and scrambles his memory and his brain, leaving him with little but rage as about Duma Key: A Book he begins the ordeal of treatment. A marriage that created two wonderful daughters abruptly ends, and Edgar starts to wish he hadn’t survived the injuries that could have killed him. He desires out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a “geographic get rid of,” a new life distant in the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.

“Edgar, will anything cause you to happy?”

“I used to sketch.”

“Take it up again. You need hedges…hedges against the night time.”

Edgar leaves Minnesota for any rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter from the Florida coast. The sun establishing into the Gulf coast of florida as well as the tidal rattling of shells in the seaside call out to him, and Edgar attracts. A visit from Ilse, the girl he dotes on, starts his motion out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a guy reluctant to reveal his very own wounds, and Elizabeth Eastlake, a ill old woman whose root base are tangled deep in Duma Crucial. Now Edgar paints, occasionally feverishly, his exploding talent both a question and a weapon. A lot of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth’s past unfolds as well as the ghosts of her youth begin to seem, the damage which they are capable is truly damaging.

The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory, and the nature of the supernatural-Stephen Ruler gives us another novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.