The Together Place

Rose Craven, whose mother is under the care of Dr. Ed Leahey, arouses his curiosity when he overhears her conversing with Lily, the nonexistent twin sister. He becomes concerned upon learning that Rose has not left her room for three days. Lily is in Kama Loca, “The Together Place,” Rose explains, where people’s souls go—but for a brief time. They don’t drown or burn up or go to jail there, she adds, but they die. Unless somebody helps her, Lily is going to die, too.

A country doctor treats a woman who lives with her daughter on a remote island. The daughter has been communicating with a twin sister who lives in another dimension.

A small-town doctor helps a mother and daughter who live alone on a faraway island, where the girl talks to her twin sister from a different world.