For artist Clara Jenkins, the last ferry home is a cage she's happy to miss. She wants the real Edward's Cove, the one that comes alive when the tourists flee and the nor'easter hits.

Forget monsters in the air vents. The real horror is already inside your head.

To save her family, she performed a ritual of desperation. The man who answered offered her the world. The contract is a single page. The price isn't in ink. And the signature... is her surrender.