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"My name is Cassandra Quinn. You can call me Cass. I took my father’s last name because it’s important for me to have as much of him as I can hold in case my own mind begins to go. And given the things I have discovered and the horrors I have seen in my search for answers, this is entirely likely. So just in case I forget to remember, I’m going to tell you what happened to me." Cassandra Quinn has a gift. Not that she considers it one. For Cass, the ability to touch people and see their memories is most definitely a curse, especially now that she has found herself in service to a local detective, to whom she owes a debt, and who uses her to find the truth in those committed to hiding it. Unable to escape her obligation to Detective Orton, Cass finds her very sanity in danger the more she is exposed to the horrors inside the minds of monsters. Unable to love for fear of what intimacy may reveal, she finds comfort in solace, and occasional visits to her mother, who is sequestered in a rest home living out her last days. Until the day Cass’s mother is reported missing. Stricken with Alzheimer’s disease, it is not the first time she has wandered. But when a frantic search turns up no trace of the missing woman, Cass receives another call, this time from the woman herself, asking her to come to the small town of Euclid, where an inexplicable outbreak of mass amnesia has begun to affect the residents. And there is something else waiting in that town: an insidious force that may be unfamiliar to Cass, but was very well known to her father, a malevolent force that appears unstoppable as people begin to lose their minds, the mystery unravels, and night falls on memory lane.
Author
Born and raised in a small harbor town in the south of Ireland, Kealan Patrick Burke knew from a very early age that he was going to be a horror writer. The combination of an ancient locale, a horror-loving mother, and a family full of storytellers, made it inevitable that he would end up telling stories for a living. Since those formative years, he has written five novels, over a hundred short stories, six collections, and edited four acclaimed anthologies. In 2004, he was honored with the Bram Stoker Award for his novella The Turtle Boy. Kealan has worked as a waiter, a drama teacher, a mapmaker, a security guard, an assembly-line worker at Apple Computers, a salesman (for a day), a bartender, landscape gardener, vocalist in a grunge band, curriculum content editor, fiction editor at Gothic.net, and, most recently, a fraud investigator. When not writing, Kealan designs book covers through his company Elderlemon Design. A movie based on his short story "Peekers" is currently in development as a major motion picture. Represented by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House Agency.
