Twisted Branch

Twisted Branch: A Novel of the Abbadon Inn

In 1856, mysterious Nicholas Abbadon came to the seaside town of Cape May, New Jersey where he opened his side street inn. Many terrible, dark, and secret things happened there in the more than one hundred years that followed. Now, it is 1978. Former teacher Sam Ford happens upon Cape May and the Abbadon Inn. The new owners of the bed and breakfast make him an irresistible offer: free room and board and a salary to home school their troubled son. But soon Sam wonders if he should have kept on traveling. The odor of decay hangs in the air, icy chills sweep through the third floor, and he has disturbing dreams and visions of death and destruction, and of escaped slaves of the long past trying to reach Cape May along the Underground Railroad. It wasn't chance that brought Sam to the Inn. It was fate, reaching out from the past when his ancestors lived, and died in chains. Now they want something from him. And that something may be his life.