When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world. John returns to Long Island to attend the funeral of an old family servant. Anthony Bellarosa, the long dead mafia don's son intends on drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exact revenge on his father's murderer Susan Sutter.

"After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem,...