Scott Dryden, manager of the Quinley Inn, believed his story began with the death of Duffy Birdsong, but quickly learned that beginnings and endings are not always as they seem. Reoccurring dreams and visits from the dead drive him headlong into a new reality beyond his own existence, one in which tragedy and hope are intertwined and the purpose of his soul is understood. In Marquee, John Paul Allen leads us into a world where death is merely a brief interruption.