Given his life so far, Isaac Bain should be a dead man. What keeps him alive are the secrets he carries.In his dark, gritty and twisted world, the future is something he can see, but cannot touch, that is until the future becomes Now and the world goes to hell. His only hope is the book he carries; an ancient tome of secrets promising deliverance. But can a book written by a madman be the world's salvation?It all still seems like something which can be accomplished. Until a girl shows up.He thinks himself strong enough to resist the obvious charms of her presence. But she bares secrets of her own, her face strangely familiar. Ghosts follow her wherever she goes and have now trailed her into Isaac's home. Unlike him, she can feel their touch and they want nothing more than to have her for themselves. And when they're finally successful, Isaac realizes his troubles had only just begun...