Since she was a child, Lieutenant Detective Alisha, "Al" Ferdinand has had dreams, dreams which came true. Prominently featured in the worst of these dreams is a dark, threatening figure she has always called "The Bad Man". Now, Alisha is the youngest detective to make her grade, and the Bad Man is back. Worse, he seems to be baiting Al and making his way into the real world. Rob Paulpry, a semi disgraced reporter, whose mother saw and knew things she could not logically know or see happens on the case. Together with a pair of "Creatures of Light" and a scraggly stray cat, they set out on the trail of the Bad Man and discover a reality neither of them expected.