The second book in the series takes readers back to 1978—at a time when special detective Frank Miller receives a strange assignment: the residents of a small town are being terrorized by inexplicable insomnia that drives people mad. Leaving Washington with a new partner, Alex Reed, Miller ends up in Black Woods—a tiny settlement lost in impenetrable forests. And anyone who dares to venture into that dark, black thicket stops sleeping at night. Something sinister hides behind those centuries-old trees; something terrible now threatens not only the residents of Black Woods, but the detective himself…