After a violent storm in the summer of 1962, Martin and his friends came across something in the mud and muck of Cobble Creek. It bubbled up to the surface and poor Hank Eisenman was the first to grab it. The rushing water pulled him along, bashing him to death as he floated to the surface in the swamp below. Despite the savage wounds to Hank's body, the Devil's Float was unharmed. At the same time in 1898, the strikingly beautiful daughter of a German carpenter was determined that her love for the mysterious Lucien was destined to transcend time. Griselda knew that this could only be achieved if she were reunited with the Devil's Float on the other side of death. For Lucien had been taken from her and she was dying to be with him. Martin and Griselda will meet in their shared quest to wrestle the Devil's Float from the obsessive clutches of Tommy Sheldon, the boy that picked up the enigmatic object when Hank died. Who will win the battle for the Devil's Float and either save or destroy the town? Perhaps even the world Recipe for Devil's Float included in back of book