The Dreams in the Pearl House

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About The Dreams in the Pearl House

A heavy fog has settled over Portland, OR, where Charlie West has returned after the devastating events in Astoria. Trapped between a lost dream and a life he hoped to leave behind, he takes up residency at the Portland City Mission where he strives to wipe away a stain of a guilt he doesn't quite understand which won't relinquish its grip on him. Shards of a recurring dream, of what happened in Astoria, plagues his nights, eroding his ability to sleep a little more each day. Despondent, he's tried everything he can to manufacture rest and peace and sleep, but to no avail. He resigns to haunting the streets all night, hoping to exhaust himself into whatever few hours of restless sleep he can, each day feeling somehow thinner and more hollow than the day before. Fall gives way to Winter, and a series of grizzly murders terrorizes the city's streets. Deformed bodies, riddled with strange bruising, baffle the police. As they follow up every lead they can, Detectives Cait Lane and Scott Donovan find themselves at The Mission Charlie, who might hold a vital piece of information. Events unfold that none of them could have expected. Astoria's Order is gone, but the organization's reach is long and still bent on calling forth The Nameless Ones to recreate the world. Charlie must decide whether to pick up the reins of his own life or let them go forever and give into the currents the world would have for him. Follow along as these seemingly unconnected paths converge in the explosive next chapter of The Northwest Trilogy.

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