Author(s): Bradford Morrow

Fiction

"[A] splendidly written mystery . . . a compelling story. Grade: A" --"Cleveland Plain Dealer "
"Subtle, distinctive and well-wrought." --"Washington Post"
Hired by a developer to dowse a lonely forested valley in upstate New York, Cassandra Brooks comes upon a girl hanged from a tree. When she returns with authorities, however, the body has vanished, calling into question her sanity--at least until a dazed, mute girl emerges from the woods, alive and eerily reminiscent of Cassandra's vision of the hanged girl. Increasingly bizarre divinations ensue, leading Cassandra back to a past she thought long behind her, locking her in a mortal chess match with a killer who has returned from the past to haunt her once more.
"Sublime . . . creates a seamless breathing breathtaking unity of the literary and the suspense novel, detonating the very notion of genre. Riveting, insightful, sentence-by-sentence charged with feeling, it bears us, helpless, with it on its downward journey to illumination." --Peter Straub
BRADFORD MORROW is the author of numerous acclaimed works of fiction, and founder of the literary magazine "Conjunctions." He is a professor of literature at Bard College, and divides his time between New York City and upstate New York.