Publisher's Synopsis
Jack was thirteen when he found his brother Harry's dead body in the cubby house. Harry is not the first local boy to die under such circumstances, but the police are asking the wrong questions and the investigation goes cold before it begins. Following the loss of Harry, his family disintegrates, so a distressed Jack seeks solitude in the confines of his grandmother's fables.
Unable to escape the strange fantasy world, Jack is trapped inside a deadly fable that is haunted by his brother. Jack must weave a story from its end to its inception with the hourglass running and Harry's killer closing in. He must choose between abandoning his family or his sanity while existing in the moment and learning to live with the truth of his pain.
Following the mysterious death of his brother, Jack is tugged into an imaginary world of fables where he must fight to keep his family together--and alive.
