Dan Mackenzie is chief of police for the little town of Madison, and he’s thinking of moving to the big city to get a fresh start. When he meets Vicki Jo Gradishar, the daughter of a good friend, he begins thinking he might change his mind.
But when a man mysteriously disappears, Dan and VJ find themselves drawn into a mystery that tests their faith and becomes a life-or-death struggle.
Suddenly an Indian legend involving a battle fought more than a hundred years ago, pitting the Hohani, a local tribe, against a race of demons, is becoming more fact than fiction. Now it seems something has returned – and the government is following the trail.
The ensuing clash threatens to engulf Madison and destroy everyone in it.
Two sets of sisters, one set Jewish and the other Christian, are separated by decades in time. But they come together in one miraculous story of family, faith, and friendship.
Gallagher Cromwell is a profoundly unhappy young man. His life's course as a blacksmith - in a long line of blacksmiths - seems set, offering a future of wealth and influence. Yet he is restless and frustrated as his relationship with his father, Thomas, remains bitter and tense.
Amid his suffocating life, Gallagher is suddenly confronted by a mysterious figure named Kailbourne, who offers him another sort of life altogether. It is an alternative path fraught with danger, promising to drop the young man into an ongoing war with the terrifying Maroth.
This war is as old as humankind, draped behind everyday life as dark curtains in a banquet hall, nearly unseen at the outer reaches of torchlight. There, in the margins of human existence, the lives of kings and peasants alike are shaped by the persistent conflict.
The journey Kailbourne offers is everything Gallagher could imagine - and nothing he might ultimately want.