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Paul Thaler

www.themaddeningbook.com

   
After the “accident” that takes his parents’ lives, young Daemon Ultrecht escapes into the nightmarish stories of Edgar Allan Poe. His obsession intensifies, inking his body with the inhabitants from his “mentor’s” macabre tales—until he becomes “Poe,” a psychotic killer, his tattooed raven signifying his self-proclaimed power over life and death. His first victim is 21-year-old Clara Knox, an “Irish beauty” who survives the horrific attack, a brutality that scars her body but inflicts even deeper psychological wounds. Driven by rage and revenge, she seeks to destroy the monster that has shattered her life, seducing PJ Bones into her twisted plan. The disgraced former NYPD detective turned best-selling author finds himself helpless against Clara’s dives into madness and betrayal.  The lives of all three converge in horrific fashion as they plunge headlong into the maddening, where there is no escape from the looming destiny that awaits them.

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