PURITY by Douglas Clegg
Cemetery Dance - 2000
ISBN: 1881475719 -Hardcover-Limited Edition

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Reviewed by Beverly J. Rowe
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"There is no madness but the madness of the gods. There is no purity but the purity of love."

Owen Crites tells the tale of growing up on Outerbridge Island and falling in love with Jenna Montgomery. Owen's father is the gardener on the Montgomery summer estate, and Owen is destined to become the groundskeeper. He is becoming aware of the fact that he is socially unacceptable as a suitor for Jenna. Owen, however, must have Jenna as his own, and will go to any lengths to make it happen.

Jenna brings her rich lover, Jimmy, to the island to spend the summer with her. Owen's jealousy is monumental...his little statue of "Dagon" the sea god that he keeps in the pond is going to help him see to it that Jenna will belong to him alone, or no one.

This creepy story has a shocker of a surprise ending. You won't soon forget Owen. Douglas Clegg is a master at keeping you awake at night with his strange characters and the high tension of his plots. You KNOW something bad is going to happen, and you just can't stop reading!