“On the night that I was born, my…grandfather made…predictions that shaped
my life. Then he died in the very minute my mother gave birth to me.”

It is a night filled with portent that heralds the arrival of Jimmy Tock.
For in the midst of a violent storm, his grandfather rises from his deathbed 
and, with chilling clarity, cites five specific days that will darken the 
boy’s future. Jimmy’s father might have considered it to be the ranting of a 
dying man, if not for the fact that Grandfather Josef also predicts—correctly—
the exact moment of Jimmy’s birth, and that the child will have a deformity on 
his left foot.

Twenty years later, the first of the ominous days arrives and Jimmy, who has 
thought of little else for weeks, heads for the peaceful environs of the library, 
thinkingnothing untoward could happen there. But once inside, Jimmy encounters a 
young man with movie star good looks who flashes him a mega-watt smile as he commits 
an act of unspeakable horror. It’s only when beautiful Lorrie Lynn Hicks suddenly 
arrives toting a huge pile of books, that Jimmy, instantly in love, finds the where-
withal to save them both…at least, for now.

Only Dean Koontz can infuse every day normalcy with elements of the bizarre, so 
that we’re comforted one moment and the next filled with terror. As we watch 
Jimmy Tock, the embodiment of goodness, struggle with evil we’re by his side, 
right up until the moment he learns the shocking truth about who he really is…. 
Explicit sex, violence, language and subject matter.