When Kristen Roberts and her husband moved to a quiet Pennsylvania college town, she had a feeling that doom awaited them. But with the excitement of moving and the annoying intrusions of an elderly neighbor woman, Kris forgot her premonition of danger -- until she read that several local children had mysteriously disappeared.

Soon the missing children haunted Kris's dreams, and she was engulfed by a maelstrom of terror that threatened to plunge her into a darkness from which she might not escape. For the danger Kris had sensed was very real...the woman next door was more than a nosey neighbor...Kris's happy marriage was about to be destroyed...and at any moment, an unimaginable evil could crush her world -- and her life.