I listened to the audio version of this suspenseful noir thriller with elements of the paranormal. The story takes place in 1935 during the Great Depression. A group of CCC workers are on a train headed to the Florida Keys to build a bridge when Arlen Wagner sees impending doom. He tries to get the workers to get off the train when it stops at a station. Only one of the men, young Paul Brickhill, hears the warning in Arlen’s voice and gets off the train. When the immense Labor Day hurricane of 1935 destroys the Keys Paul and Arlen are alive, but find themselves in great danger when they arrive at the Cypress House. This is a gritty story of good and evil and Koryta does a great job describing the suffocating atmosphere at the lodge, caused not only by the weather but by raw human emotions.

Allison