For twenty years, Jamie Warren has been trying to escape the darkness. The memories of the terrible events of the past and the guilt for having once left his sick brother behind won’t let him go. But a chain of astonishing and inexplicable incidents brings them together again—and at the same time returns to his life his old school friends. Gradually it becomes clear: their meeting is not accidental, as if fate itself gathered them together once more.
They all remember one hot summer of childhood:
- a mysterious stranger nicknamed the Magician, who taught them magic and made dead animals come back to life;
- and the nightmarish tragedy that happened soon after they met him.
Now danger is returning, and the friends will have to face their fears head-on and pick up the trail of the person who very well might be a real monster.