Wilder discovers notes in Sky’s handwriting in the cottage, written in his favorite green ink, making crushing comments about Wilder’s writing and broken heart. Events in the manuscript start to chime eerily with the present. As he writes, the lines between fiction and reality slip. Wilder’s last book will be a thinly veiled account of their friendship, and later, their enmity - a poisonous, New England Brideshead Revisited. After the publication of Sky’s first novel, The Sound and the Dagger, Sky’s fame and ego drove them apart. Wilder’s protagonist is based on his nemesis, Sky, now dead. Here, he intends to write his last - his masterpiece. Failed writer Wilder Harlow has returned to the lonely cottage on the New England coast where years ago he wrote his first book, never published.
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