In the World of BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, a psychological thriller, the chaos is everywhere and the struggle against it is not always clearly understood by those involved. This struggle comes in fits and starts, sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, the characters meeting the challenge as they do mostly everything else in their chaotic lives -- they improvise, they make mistakes; they're making it up as they go along and thus, each have their own version of the truth. Whichever version of the truth found most plausible, they all have one common thread. They all lead back to Echo Pass -- a half completed resort community in the Colorado Rockies which sits up there festering with its secrets as it slides into bankruptcy, soon to be just another western ghost town crumbling into ruin.