They had a dark talent the world had lost…. Carr Mackay had an okay job, a beautiful woman and a lot of big plans—a pathway marked for himself through life. But one day he met a beautiful, frightened girl who didn’t quite belong in this world. An something began. Irrevocably. Something that diverted him forever from his path, shook the sleepy dust from his eyes and brought him to a startling confrontation with the furthest limits of life, death—and an alien, terrifying danger…