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Thomas Odd is a fry cook rumored to have the ability to talk to the dead. Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority ... and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.

Children in Moonlight Bay, California, are missing and Christopher Snow believes they are still alive and that their disappearances have something to do with clandestine scientific experiments at a nearby abandoned military base.