At the center of The Deadly Space Between is an adolescent boy， Toby Hawk， whose intimate relationship with his mother and her mysterious lover leads to a chilling outcome. A solitary boy in a family of independent， unconventional women， Toby lives in a small， closed world that consists of school and surfing the Internet. His mother， only fifteen years his senior， is a painter on the brink of commercial success. But everything changes when she takes up with Roehm， a fascinating but enigmatic scientist. As he begins his slow dance of courtship and seduction， alienating mother from son， their lives become unstable and duplicitous. But who is Roehm really -- this huge， sinister， irresistible man with no discernible past? The confused adolescent turns to the Web for clues about his mother s hauntingly seductive， predatory lover -- and the answers he finds transform his life.An eerie psychological ghost story with echoes of Faust， Freud， and Frankenstein， The Deadly Space Between is a disturbing tale of Oedipal passions -- a rich and dark exploration of sexual ambiguity and longing.