Here is a real-life picture of The Talley House, located on East Second Street in Ocean Isle. It is the cottage in the novel where Alex and Emma came to hide

Kevin Pickell's Debut Novel Coming December 2013

When Alex and Emma take refuge at Ocean Isle, an idyllic and picturesque island along the North Carolina coastline, it all seems too good to be true:

   It is a place where Alex, a writer, can settle down and finish his novel. It is a place where he and Emma, the gothic beauty he is protecting, can hide and blend in. They can become faceless . . . safe.

   Their one and only worry is whether or not the tiny island can contain Emma's insatiable and forbidden hunger.

   And now the deadly forces they so desperately tried to elude have at last tracked them down. Alex and Emma won't be happy to see them coming . . . but they're coming just the same.