World travel subjects us to peculiar situations and allows us to encounter amazing individuals, some of whom I describe in this collection of poignent essays, one of which is dedicated to Jean-Michel, my old friend famously known as the artist Basquiat. We used to hang out together in Hana Maui and smoke a lot of weed.

For two hundred years, Cage Aldrich has haunted Charleston, searching for a new body with one intent: revenge on the hag who tortured him, then buried him beneath the waves.For two hundred years, Genevieve Vetivier has never regretted sending Cage to his death. She looks ageless – for she possesses beauty fashioned by unspeakable evil.For two months, Imogen Mortensen, an art student, has carved wood into a master work: a classical male statue. It’s proof of her talent....