Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Fiction
Master storyteller Stephen Kingâs classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached.
After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantleâs right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage. Renting a house on Duma Keyâa stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter off the Florida coastâEdgar slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick, elderly woman whose roots are tangled deep in this place. And as he heals, he paintsâfeverishly, compulsively, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. For Edgarâs creations are not just paintings, but portals for the ghosts of Elizabethâs pastâŠand their power cannot be controlledâŠ