How much can a person endure, Henry? How many waves can his mental world withstand? Our soul wears away like the rock standing still in the sea. You think it's stable and strong, a solid ground. But it wears away and corrodes slowly, desperately slowly and so irreversibly under the sea water... "Psychiatrist Henry Quentous could not imagine even in his darkest dreams what he would discover on the Island of Bones, where he was called to serve as the favored director of Lady Scarlett De Notche's psychiatric clinic. A decision that will indelibly mark his own life and that of his family, revealing the secrets of the small island in the lagoon of cosmopolitan Venice.

A gothic tale of love and horror, drama and imagination in the most haunted island in the world, Povelia.