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Blurb: “Norah Benson's future seemed secure that snowy night in February. She lived in a converted carriage house in Manhattan's expensive East Sixties, her two children attended a good private school, life was a civilized round of company, books, art galleries, shopping on Fifth Avenue, and relaxed summers in a house on Fire Island. Her troubles were the bittersweet troubles of the financially comfortable: she was still bruised from her divorce from Ted Benson, a microbiologist at Rockefeller University. Norah's novels weren't best sellers; at parties no one ever recognized her name. She was concerned about her younger brother, Joel, who had cracked up after an unhappy love affair with the jet-set daughter of a famous senator, fled to Tangier, and come back experimenting with hashish and possibly LSD.
Then Joel is late to dinner that winter evening. As her annoyance grows into alarm, she telephones him and is answered by a thick, peculiar voice not at all like Joel's. She hurries to investigate and her snug life explodes in police, am-bulances, attendants, Bellevue Hospital.
After Joel's release, an unorthodox psychiatrist named Erika probes for Joel's trouble in his difficult Westchester child-hood. Or is Joel's behavior not schizophrenic but a post-LSD reaction? There are altogether too many unresolved questions.
Where does Joel disappear in the middle of the night?
why is the superintendent of his East Village apartment so frightened of him. What is his connection with a bizarre Puerto Rican boy named Tonio? What does he have to do with a ghastly succession of murders by someone called The Chopper? As she desperately searches for the answers, Norah is swept into the eerie world of botánicas and brujería, Puerto Rican witchcraft, a sorcerer from Trinidad, weird religious rites summoning the restless spirits of the dead.
Developing slowly, implacably, Ramona Stewart's tale of horror and supernatural forces will surround you with an atmosphere of lingering terror. Of course, there is nothing to worry about. Such things don't really happen... or do they?