A story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love
haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught
in a terrible crossfire.
Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones
recounts the plight of a forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike
Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden
death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank
screen of his word processor.
Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the
lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally
returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans' isolated summer home.
He finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much
changed underneath--held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max
Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his pupose:
to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed
young mother. As Mike is drawn into their struggle, as he falls in
love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara
Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating
nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are
the forces that have been unleashed here--and what do they want
of Mike Noonan??
