Duma Key

Edgar Freemantle reached a Tjunction in his lifes journey when a freak accident cost him his arm... and his marriage. He takes the turning marked Florida home ... » 

Edgar Freemantle reached a Tjunction in his lifes journey when a freak accident cost him his arm... and his marriage. He takes the turning marked Florida home as they say of the newly wed or nearly dead. But rather than choosing a typical holiday location Freemantle is drawn to a beautiful eerily remote stretch of land off Floridas West Coast Duma Key a tangle of banyans palms and pines next to a deserted beach uninhabited bar a few houses owned by an old lady named Elizabeth once a famous patron of the arts. Encouraged by his youngest daughter Freemantle discovers a unique talent for painting starting with the fabulous sunsets. But soon he finds himself experiencing weird phantom pains in his missing arm. And something strange and disturbing is happening with his pictures they are becoming predictive even dangerous to those who buy them. Freemantle must team up with his fellow resident Wireman to chart his way through the increasingly disturbing mystery of Duma Key where outofseason hurricanes tear lives apart and a powerful undertow lures lost and tormented souls. Eventually they will have to discover what really happened to Elizabeths twin sisters who disappeared in the 1920s and the haunting secret to which this strange old lady holds the key. «