This is the story of a man who discovers an incredible talent for painting after a freak accident in which he loses an arm He moves to a 'new life' in Duma Key, off Florida's West Coast a deserted strip, part beach, part weed-tangled, owned by a patroness of the arts whose twin sisters went missing in the 1920s Duma Key is where out-of-season hurricanes tears lives apart and a powerful undertow lures lost and tormented souls Here Freemantle is inspired to paint the amazing sunsets But soon the paintings become predictive, even dangerous to those who buy them