“Since his wife Michelle left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter Amity in Suavidad Beach. It’s a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object–something he calls ‘the key to everything’–and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, Jeffy and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth”–Dust jacket flap.