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 hexd brought down bank robbers in a Georgetown bank, she knew shexd found him. She called Savich, but she didnxt use the phone. They were burying dead people in my daddyxs grave . . . theyxre coming after us. Please help me. Whoxs they? Blessed, hexs 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 x a relentless madman who has the ability to control others simply by looking at them. And the madman is after her and her mom.
