Not truly comprehending what frightens her, Kate runs into the street into the path of an oncoming car, and her destiny. When she wakes in the hospital, she is introduced to people who will change her and her daughter's lives forever. Despite her unbelief, Kate is forced to accept that her daughter, Sara, is the target of an Ancient evil, and take her into hiding.

Their liason with the outside world is Ray, a man she grows to love as they battle darkness together. All too soon, their fragile joy will be threatened, requiring all their resources of love in this life and the world beyond to be utilized to save everyone.

Even before the author began quoting C.S. Lewis and Madeline L'Engle, I was thinking of this as something that people who enjoyed their books as children would eagerly grab. Within the action packed thriller is a message of hope and overcoming that speaks to so many today and shows that joy is not separate from sorrow altogether.

Synopsis
When a hit-and-run driver almost kills young widow Kate Jacobs, she dismisses as deranged fanatics the two men who warn her that dark forces are trying to destroy her. The eerie disappearance of her four-year-old daughter Sara changes her mind. New friends Father Michael Emeric and Dr. Ray Benson rescue Kate's child, but the fight has only begun. Dark powers from beyond our world want to destroy Kate and her daughter and prevent the birth of a future child foretold to have extraordinary psychic powers and a destiny as a great warrior against evil. Kate must develop her latent wild talents and allow Sara to do the same, facing the fact that the universe is weirder—and more dangerous—than she has ever imagined.