Something happened to Anne Mitchell when she was 11 years old so horrible her mind erased the first decade of her life. Twenty-five years later, she has come home to a dried-up Texas prairie town to find her past, to live with her crazy grandmother in the rambling, old house where she grew up—in a final, desperate attempt to remember. Unless she remembers, Anne will never understand the meaning of the anguished confession her mother choked out as she lay dying. And Anne will remain forever a slave to what she calls the “Boogie Man” – images from her lost childhood that appear unbidden in her painting and stalk her dreams. She doesn’t know that the cost of remembering could be her sanity. Or her life …
