Book I

Everything in ex-Marine Sean O'Connell's life changes in an instant when an unspeakable evil enters a small and secluded Midwestern cottage town during the July 4 holiday and snatches his wife and son, along with the other residents of the town. This mass disappearance occurs under the guise of a terrorist attack on American soil, and Sean, the lone "survivor," finds himself on the run trying to put the pieces of a puzzle together, desperate in his search to find his family.