Everything is about to change… Everything is about to break.
After moving into her cousin’s guest house with her cousin’s husband in tiny Magdalenia, in the middle of the Arizona desert, Ross Lowry hopes to hide from financial troubles for just a little while and catch her breath.
But in this desert something is clearly wrong.
After a noisy New Year’s night in town, a chain of events begins—events that flip lives upside down. Those who are used to being on top—rich and successful people—one after another suffer crushing setbacks, while their unlucky neighbors suddenly get chance after chance, as if luck itself has chosen them.
And this is only the prologue.
Very soon, the residents of Magdalen start behaving strangely, as if not of their own will. Then children disappear, and monstrous creatures come out of empty wastelands. Order collapses, and the city slides rapidly into madness.
But what’s happening is only the first signs of an approaching clash with an ancient, all-consuming darkness capable of erasing the world forever. And only Ross Lowry notices what threat is coming…