Summary

Section 1: Dark

Chapters 1-5

“Through the chilly curtain of sleet, in the intermittent wash of the great light on the jutting cliff to the south, the massive silhouette of Bluff House loomed over Whiskey Beach.” Chap. 1, p. 12

Eli Landon arrives at Bluff House. It has been 2-3 years since Eli has been back to Whiskey Beach. He had always been too busy with his work or his wife – a wife who had been cheating on him for 8 months before she was murdered in their home. Now Eli is back at Bluff House, his childhood home, to look after the place while his grandmother recovers from a fall. Eli is broken in almost every conceivable way and perhaps Bluff House is the place where he can begin to heal.

The morning after Eli’s arrival, he meets Abra Walsh, Whiskey Beach’s...