A hundred years ago, a cult flourished in the area, a cult with a penchant for sacrificing dying children by ritual drowning. But there is an even more bizarre effect the wells have on living people, and the two strange properties combine this season in the well on Phil Ainsworth's property. Meanwhile, strangers are sneaking around Phil's well, including a priest and a beautiful antiques dealer. Linking arcane cult practices and rituals with the greed and selfishness of a modern age, and entwining past and present as only a master fabulist can. James Blaylock again blends California Gothic with magic realism to create a hybrid mythological fiction.
Broken things have to be repaired quickly, or else the pieces get lost.
Once acquainted with Blaylock, you won't rest until you've sought out his other books and let them curl gently into your soul.