In the August of their twelfth year, Will Colven and Gaby Rice were hunted by invisible hounds. Under the care of Will’s family, they fled from town to town, from motel to motel, unable to rest, unable to seek help. Their separation ended the hunt, but not the questions. Who was after them? What did they want? What other kinds of nightmare creatures existed in the cracks of human perception, and when might one attack?
Now, three years later, it is time to answer the questions. Armed with the strange, unexplored gifts that marked them as friends in early childhood, fortified by their confidence in each other, they set out to solve the riddles and end the fear that still haunts both their families. But every answer leads to a deeper riddle, every shadow conceals a darker nightmare, until they find themselves entangled in a conflict as old as humanity itself.
That wouldn’t be so bad; it’s nice to have scope for one’s talents. But in the course of pursuing their answers, they fall victim to the one fate neither of them would have dreamed of, and it threatens to tear them both apart.
