Gretchen McNeil – författare

When Father Shane Ryan is summoned to a meeting with HisEminence Cardinal Jacobs, he’s confused. A recently ordained priest at a smallMaryland parish, Father Ryan has no idea why His Eminence would want to meethim. When he arrives, the Cardinal opens by laying out Father Ryan’s past as anFBI analyst. It seems a priest has gone missing, and the case is…unusual. Weeks ago, Constable Miriam Rideout from the RoyalNewfoundland Constabulary fielded a frantic call from a priest on a remoteNewfoundland island. He begged for help, but then the line went dead, and noone has since been reported missing. When permission to perform a wellnesscheck is denied by her superiors, Miriam takes some vacation time and books aticket on the ferry.Thrown together with friendly but cagey locals, Miriam andFather Ryan soon learn that something about the island isn’t right. There’s afishing port without boats, a town with no stores and no cars, and strange,bulbous purple wildflowers are growing everywhere. The two don’t trust eachother, but they begin to learn that an alliance, however uneasy, is anecessity. Because something evil lurks beneath the island—something ancient,eternal, hungry—and neither it nor the uncanny islanders have any intention ofletting these newcomers leave. A growing sense of dread intensifies until itexplodes in this mystery turned nail-biting gothic horror.