Publisher's Synopsis
"LaRocca's writing is lush as a Baroque painting... But LaRocca's true talent lies in his ability to bring his readers into the lives of his characters..." The New York Times A haunting and horror-filled tale of loneliness, trauma and spiritual yearning from the award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbridled hatred simmering beneath the guise of the town's idyllic community-a hatred that will eventually burst and forever change the lives of those who once found peace in the quiet town of Henley's Edge.
