Twin Crossing (Paperback)

They were identical.

Same face, same voice, same house, same parents. One of them grew up to design hospitals. The other one grew up in a cell.

Nobody in the family ever explained the difference. Nobody said the word for what happened in their grandfather's cottage on Silver Lake, or which brother it happened to, or why the one who was left alone has spent thirty years unable to sleep past three-thirty in the morning.

Chance Macklin has a firm with fourteen people in it, a four-year-old daughter, and a wife he met in 1995 in a chatroom full of strangers, because her profile listed an activity almost nobody on earth would recognize.

Seth Macklin has a five-hundred-page notebook. He has written down every one of these years and rewritten each of them so they end differently. And he has become very good, in the way only a twin can be, at wearing someone else's life.

He knows his brother's voice. He knows the woman's name. He knows where she'll be on Saturday.

What happened in that house-
and which brother did it happen to?

Jerry Leake is the author of ten books of fiction and nine books on rhythm and percussion. His fiction ranges across thrillers, dark fantasy, and literary suspense - the Jack's Alive trilogy, the Twin Crossing duology, Lethal Injection, The Soul Searcher, Sand and Ceremony - and often draws on the places and people he knows firsthand. He has also written cartoon and comic collections - Far Fetched, Dogbreath - and books for younger readers. He is a Professor of World Percussion at Berklee College of Music and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory, where he has taught for more than thirty years. His percussion texts on North Indian, South Indian, West African, and Afro-Cuban rhythm are used by students and players worldwide. He has studied and performed in Ghana and India, and is a founding member of Natraj and Club d'Elf, leads the world-rock fusion octet Cubist, and has long played with the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society.