A fast-moving small-town kinfolk tale within the culture of Mary Higgins Clark.

It’s 1964. Sixteen-year-old Brody Rivers isn't just an intruder, he’s half local in a bigoted city and his father is in reformatory for homicide. Brody takes over a rural grocery path, using a battered outdated grocery truck from one farm to a different. The farms on his direction were within the comparable households for generations, and he senses disapproval and hostility from his customers.

When he first arrives on the Porter farm, he senses anything else – an odd empathy towards the younger woman who lives there, Tricia Porter. As time passes, it intensifies until eventually he believes that he can experience the sentiments of numerous other folks in his existence in addition. those connections are scary, inflicting him actual soreness. He concerns that he'll pass loopy, similar to his tormented grandmother.

In 1953, whilst Brody used to be slightly 5 years of age, she advised him that he had the “gift”, similar to she did. yet nobody will clarify it to him. without perception into the talents of an empath, Brody feels that his reward is really a curse.

The friendliest individual on his grocery path is Lizzy Baker, a lonely married girl who hates the isolation of the rustic and rarely tolerates the tight-knit farming neighborhood. earlier than lengthy Lizzy invitations him into her farmhouse. Her advances upload to his burdens.

As the years cross by way of, he’s stricken by his affair with Lizzy and his unusual dating with Tricia Porter. His empathic and psychic skill reasons shiny and habitual nightmares. They hang-out him, robbing him of sleep, and so they revolve round Tricia Porter. Brody’s hindrance for her protection deepens. even as, his involvement with Lizzy may well simply smash him.

When a life-threatening January snowstorm comes out of nowhere, so does the ghostly photograph of a girl who seems to be from a prior existence. The disagreement that erupts among the most characters is as excessive because the typhoon that crippled Huron County in the course of the iciness of 1971.

This is the whole damaged Chain Saga, together with the 4 elements Seduction, Betrayal, Entrapment, and Revelation - all on hand as stand-alone works.