Daniel and Rand Angel are two men apart from this world, brothers who came into existence at the age of seven because the time before that was lost to them. Well-versed in a language that does not exist and vainly trying to fit into our modern world, their lives are shattered when Daniel is struck down by sudden, violent blackouts. A chilling encounter with a bewitching young woman leads to their capture by two hard-faced men claiming to be State Troopers, and their attempts to escape soon give way to increasingly horrific events that tear them apart. A single frightening night leaves Daniel unconscious, Rand vanished, and sinister forces closing in from all sides.


          

           

  Certain his brother is dead, Daniel throws in with a dispirited prisoner named Katherine Bane, a woman who has lived all her life with a power that has blocked her away from the world. Even as Daniel and Katherine discover an attraction that seems to predate their lives, struggling to survive in a fantasy world gone horribly wrong, a still living and mentally shattered Rand becomes consumed by an an urgent search to find and kill his only brother, Kaliate val Orn, the Legionslayer.