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Author: Travis Thrasher

Publisher:  Faith Words

ISBN: 978-0-446-50554-3 

Although Isolation is a work of fiction, the spiritual questions and doubts that are faced by the main characters are brought out with realism and ease by the great talent of Travis Thrasher.   Mr. Thrasher breathes life into his characters by giving them the humanistic characterizations of human weakness, doubt, fear, and anger, but also strength.  He weaves a web of emotions throughout this captivating tale of good versus evil. 

Jim and Stephanie, along with their two children, have just returned to the States after a draining two-year missionary hiatus in Papua New Guinea.  Toward the end of their stay, it seemed to Jim that their work had all been for naught as disease and death ran rampant through the village.  The villagers had begun to revert back to their heathen ways after praying fruitlessly to a God that seemed to have turned His back on them all.  And Jim began to have his own doubts about the strength of his own religious faith. 

Stephanie had begun to have bouts of sleepwalking, seeing things that weren’t there, and hearing things that no one else heard.  She felt as though she were losing her mind and losing her husband and family in the resultant chaos. 

Thinking to bring his family back together, Jim accepted an offer to spend the winter months in a huge lodge built by an eccentric millionaire.  Edge Hill was built by Charles Wolfcott of Edge Communications as a retirement home, but when Mr. Wolfcott died suddenly, his brother planned to open the lodge to missionaries as a retreat. 

The lodge, though beautiful and extravagant beyond the imagination, holds terrible and dark secrets that soon begin to threaten the lives of all who come in contact with its dark interiors.  A key to the closed off section of the lodge suddenly appears, seemingly out of nowhere, and comes into Jim’s possession.  And just as suddenly he becomes obsessed with exploring the rooms that had been previously locked away from prying eyes.

While Jim is giving in to his own curiosity about the locked North Wing, his young son, Zach is doing some exploring of his own and finds numerous secret passageways and rooms that hold dark and deadly secrets of a terrifying underworld. 

Stephanie’s older brother, Paul, accepts her invitation to come to visit them on a two-week vacation.  Stephanie hopes that her brother will be the salvation that will help her hold the pieces of her marriage together.  And although Paul shows compassion about the problems that Jim and Stephanie are going through, he has issues of his own that he is reluctant to share.   

Travis Thrasher has created a masterpiece of the macabre and you will want to read this book with all the lights on.  A good read with a surprise ending that you won’t want to miss.