The first time she spoke to him was at midnight. Seven-year-old Autumn Backman needed a hero. When she saw Special Agent Dillon Savich on TV after hed brought down bank robbers in a Georgetown bank, she knew shed found him. She called Savich, but she didnt use the phone. They were burying dead people in my daddys grave . . . theyre coming after us. Please help me. Whos they? Blessed, hes coming. Ethan Merriweather, sheriff of Titusville, Virginia, a small mountain town near the Titus Hitch Wilderness, goes looking for a missing little girl. Soon after he finds her, Ethan realizes that Autumn has brought him a huge problem a relentless madman who has the ability to control others simply by looking at them. And the madman is after her and her mom.
