Seizure

Janet was raised by her father, who told her that her mother had died when Janet was three. Then a house left to her by that same mother arrives in her hands, and she learns the woman died only recently. Still reeling, she makes the journey north carrying the house key and finds a weathered stone cottage on the edge of the sea.

Tom grew up moving from place to place with his mother, and the only constant in his childhood was the stream of tales she told him about shape-shifters, peril and love that could never be. He now lives alone in the same kind of stone cottage at the water's edge, waiting for a woman he is sure will come. When Janet appears, she is startled to find him there, and she feels an unexpected pull toward him.

The novel follows the blurring of what is real and what is fabled, as the lives of its characters grow tangled with the stories that shaped them. Its dreamlike, intense prose gives the suspense a haunting, sensual edge.