Draw the Dark
Ilsa J. Bick, Joshua Swanson
MP3 CD
(Brilliance Audio, Oct. 11, 2016)
There are things the people of Winter, Wisconsin, would rather forget. The year the Nazis came to town, for one. That fire, for another. But what they’d really like to forget is Christian Cage. Seventeen-year-old Christian’s parents disappeared when he was a little boy. Ever since, he’s drawn obsessively: his mother’s face…her eyes…and what he calls “the sideways place,” where he says his parents are trapped. Christian figures if he can just see through his mother’s eyes, maybe he can get there somehow and save them. But Christian also draws other things. Ugly things. Evil things. Dark things. Things like other people’s fears and nightmares. Their pasts. Their destiny. And some thing the people of Winter would rather forget – like murder. But Winter won’t be able to forget the truth, no matter how hard it tries. Not as long as Christian draws the dark…