The storm was brewing. He could smell it in the air. She was not home yet. She was still out to sea, diving for oysters, searching for pearls. The Pacific had become her new lover. She let the water touch her in places he could no longer find. Still, he would not swim with her. He did not know how.
And then the rain came down very hard...
Someone was out there with her, kissing her salty skin as her naked body bobbed in and out of the waves, and she was kissing him, too.
Now, Ben Heath travels along a ribbon of replenishment. But there is always a memory within a memory, and Ben's memories are as thick as desert dust. With an enigmatic companion at his side, a desert road rat who calls himself Truman, Ben is bound for Prayer Town, Texas - a mythic setting of light and darkness - to take up the role once played by his capricious twin brother Luke.
Prayer Town may indeed hold the elusive promise of common sanity and ideal love, but it also vaults an unexpected revelation - one which compels Ben to make a defining choice for the first time in his life.
