Intriguing first novel, by a Miami Herald syndicated "dating"
columnist, that dances among horror, the occult, and a rational
explanation for its weird moments. At seven, Hilton James found his
grandmother Nana dead on the kitchen floor and ran for help. But
Nana was up and cooking dinner by the time he returned with help.
Then, the next year, Hilton disobeyed Nana while swimming, got
caught in the undertow, and was saved from drowning by Nana, who in
turn allowed herself to be sucked under. Now, nearing 40, Hilton,
an African-American, is head social worker at a Miami recovery
center, has married Dede Campbell, the newly elected first black
female circuit court judge in Dade County, and has two children.
Hilton, however, fears that he's lived 30 years on borrowed time
and that that time's up. Clairvoyant events point to Nana's having
refused to die because she foresaw Hilton's drowning and stayed
alive to save him. As a blind homeless man at the clinic tells him,
there is a place between life and death called The Between, where
"travelers" wait before entering the final door - all this from a
blind man who actually died about two hours before Hilton had his
talk with him! And what of Hilton's seduction by a supersexy client
- a seduction he later finds never took place? Hilton undergoes
still more fantasies bordering on virtual reality as, meanwhile,
Dede receives racist death threats by mail - threats that,
psychically, Hilton sees come from Charles Ray Goode, a released
rapist whom Dede once sent to jail. With a psychiatrist, Hilton
hashes over "death cultures" brought to this country from Africa,
but chooses to agree that it's more likely that he's a
schizophrenic. Later, Dede throws him out of the house for
neglecting his children and physically hurting his son, but takes
him back when told of Hilton's seeming illness. Together, they will
face the man terrorizing them.... Neatly plotted and smoothly told,
with an ending that avoids concrete explanations about Hilton's
mental state. (Kirkus Reviews)
When Hilton was just 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, FL, begins to receive racist hate mail, he becomes obsessed with protecting his family. Soon, however, he begins to have horrible nightmares, more intense and disturbing than any he has ever experienced. Are the strange dreams trying to tell him something? His sense of reality begins to slip away as he battles both the psychotic threatening to destroy his family and the even more terrifying enemy stalking his sleep. Chilling and utterly convincing, The Between follows the struggles of a man desperately trying to hold on to the people and life he loves, but may have already lost. The compelling plot holds readers in suspense until the final, profound moment of resolution.
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