"The monster isn't beneath the bed. It is in the mirror swallowing at all the vile things it wants to say, choking on bile to make them go away."
Wayward priest Cris Corelli rids himself of the sacred collar and leaves town, boarding the midnight train with no destination in mind. Satan is following him - lurking in the shadows.
Corelli finds himself at an unassuming boarding house run by beautiful, yet tortured, Jules. She has her own secrets. They are the kind that echo in the mind, despite the screams that are meant to drown them.
On Thanksgiving Day, 1985, Cris and Jules are bonded by a senseless act of violence that brings the small town to its knees.
They indulge in drugs and alcohol to numb the pain, and together, they teeter on the edge of darkness.
What they don't yet know, is that Satan still lurks.
Warning: Dark themes throughout.
Haunting, Poetic and Deeply Human
A haunting, spiraling tale, laced with poetic descriptions, so real it hurts. Barbara Avon writes characters who have reached rock bottom and not a chance of ever finding their way back up with a remarkable insight in the human condition, and I daresay an unbridled love for all the ugly things that make us human, make us stumble, fail, but also makes us cling to love. I read this compelling book in one sitting.
