The past has yet to happen, and the future haunts us all... Eleven-year-old George Stryder and his rescuer, Alicia Henderson, are swept into a bizarre storm that stretches across time and space, and through it, they discover creatures that have been hunting and harvesting people for a very long time. These monsters are relentless, moving in and out of reality as swiftly as stray thoughts, dogging their every move as they stumble onto the truth of George's mysterious past, and trace humanity's terrifying future.