Cradle of bones Writer Tyler is marryed to a pchcopath. He writes to keep her out of his way. But more than most she breaks in and beats him. His pastor hates his books and bans him from his chirch. His publisher wants a book soon on top of it all Tyler soon finds his lost lover. After getting his head spit open by his wife. Tyler goes out on a lake to a inland. He soon is haunted by a dark shaddow. That has been closer to him his whole life. He now fears for his life between his crazy soon to be wife and a sprit hell bent on breaking him....he must unravel the secret or die from one of the two the Dead or living.