The Resort (49 page)

But most of all he cried for his son, his youngest, his hope for the future, the light of his life.

A smart and quiet boy named Ryan.

Born in Arizona shortly after his mother attended the world premiere of
Psycho
, Bentley Little is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of fourteen previous novels and
The Collection
, a book of short stories. He has worked as a technical writer, reporter/photographer, library assistant, sales clerk, phonebook deliveryman, video arcade attendant, newspaper deliveryman, furniture mover, and rodeo gatekeeper. The son of a Russian artist and an American educator, he and his Chinese wife were married by the justice of the peace in Tombstone, Arizona.