Eden Fading

This story opens in 1961, and right away the reader discovers that peace and violence, beauty and evil, can co-exist in the same place, casting a contradiction into every story. Mike appears to be a sweet and innocent three year old boy, but he harbors a wicked spirit. At the core of his soul lurks an evil, bent on the destruction of his brother Jerry.

As the book begins, the family is beset with one catastrophe after another, which threatens to destroy them from within. Mike is at the cente...