Book excerpt: He’s out there. He’s hungry for children. He’s not alone. In 1961 Brooklyn, Carmella Noto, a brilliant young artist, psychically experiences other people’s pain and death. Her twin brother Enzo, a nonverbal autistic, accesses radio waves in his head. Both hiding their talents, both hiding their true selves. When their childhood friend is kidnapped and his family murdered, they use their secret talents to find him before he faces a fate worse than death. What they find is a monster so vile that it stained their family’s past. Buy Cities that Eat Islands and discover what lengths childhood friends will go through to save one of their own from a heinous evil.