"There is a war going on behind things, beneath them." Paul had been a forensic psychologist. But after his daughter's funeral, he hit the rock bottom of a spiraling addiction. When the spirits of the dead started rasping their wishes in his ears, he fled New York for withering Oceanrest--a flat-broke city barnacled to Maine's coast. There, he's spent the last five years scraping by, trying to shake off the burdens of his past, pretending...