A mother and daughter on the run, a scientific experiment gone wrong, and a town of absolute darkness.

A girl named Hope becomes the prey in a monstrous hunt in this chilling supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg. A tragic accident leaves young Hope Stewart with an extraordinary power that is both blessing and curse. Her touch alone can heal those suffering from horrifying afflictions...or subject them to an unspeakable fate.

Hope's scientist father is determined to exploit her frightening gift, a relentless government agent is out to kill her — and a damaged soul called Monkey vows to deliver her to the mercies of the fiendish forces he serves...

For fans of Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Guillermo del Toro.

"An omnibus of unexpected horrors!" — Publisher's Weekly.

"Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows just how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." – Tess Gerritsen, New York Time bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series.

Books by Douglas Clegg

The Children's Hour
Afterlife
The Hour Before Dark
Goat Dance
Purity
Dark of the Eye
The Words
Wild Things
Nightmare House
Bad Karma
Red Angel
Night Cage
Mischief
The Infinite
The Abandoned
The Necromancer
Isis
You Come When I Call You
Naomi
The Nightmare Chronicles
The Machinery of Night
Breeder
The Attraction

Praise for Douglas Clegg's Fiction

"Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation."
— Bentley Little, author of The Policy

"Clegg delivers!"
— John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth.

"A master of the genre. Absolutely thrilling! Douglas Clegg is the future of dark fantasy."
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
New York Times bestselling author of the Dark-Hunters.

"Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction."
— Peter Straub
author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the New York Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King)

"Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."
— Dean Koontz

"Clegg is one of the best!"
— Richard Laymon

"Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!"
— Robert R. McCammon
author of The Queen of Bedlam and Speaks The Nightbird.

About the Author
Douglas Clegg is the award-winning and bestselling author of horror, gothic, fantasy, thriller and suspense fiction. He wrote Dark of the Eye while exploring the southwest, and California in particular — and wondering what went on in some of those small towns just inland from the coast. He was also inspired slightly by a case of a mother who kidnapped her own child — and then Clegg veered off into crazy fiction territory.

His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and the Shocker Award.