A dispatcher sends Deputy Sheriff Lita Echeveria to a ghoulish burial site. A professor isolates himself in Mystic Canyon after apparently going mad. A wealthy retired farmer lives in denial of child abuse. A mysterious blonde girl and a dog point the way to criminal evidence before disappearing. The interaction of these characters cracks the boundaries of normal/abnormal psychology and criminal justice/cosmic punishment.

Dr. Terry Rich Hartley is a former research psychologist and professor, and with this story, has returned to his first love of writing, fiction. In the 1980s he published several science fiction stories, then entered journalism, where he won three first-place awards in New York state before chasing his doctorate. More…

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“This is a one-hour wonder, a clever little cupcake of a story about guilt, mental illness, and karma…”

Originally posted 2011-07-03 18:02:22.

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Tags: psychological thriller, schzophrenia