"An extraordinary work of humane imagination...Call it magic realism with soul. The closest
compatriot of The Between is Toni Morrison's Beloved . Not shabby."-- Locus A man risks his
soul and his sanity to save his family from malevolent forces in this brilliant novel of horror
and the supernatural now updated with new material from the award-winning pioneer of
speculative fiction and author of the classic My Soul to Keep --now available as a Harper
Perennial Olive Edition. When Hilton was a boy his grandmother sacrificed her life to save him
from drowning. Thirty years later he begins to suspect that he was never meant to survive that
accident and that dark forces are working to rectify that mistake. When Hilton's wife the
only elected African American judge in Dade County Florida begins to receive racist hate mail
from a man she once prosecuted Hilton becomes obsessed with protecting his family. The demons
lurking outside are matched by his internal terrors--macabre nightmares more intense and
disturbing than any he has ever experienced. Are these bizarre dreams the dark imaginings of a
man losing his hold on sanity--or are they harbingers of terrible events to come? As Hilton
battles both the sociopath threatening to destroy his family and the even more terrifying enemy
stalking his sleep the line between reality and fantasy dissolves . . . Chilling and utterly
convincing The Between is the haunting story of a man desperately trying to hold on to the
people and life he loves as he slowly loses himself.
