They are heading to a place known only as “The Retreat,” but as the temperature drops and tensions mount, Meg realizes they may not all make it there alive.Ĭarter is gazing out the window of an isolated ski chalet that he and his companions call home. She’s in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains, with five strangers and no memory of how they got on board. They’ll need to work together to escape-with their sanity and secrets intact. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Unless they can defeat this threat, it will spell the end for humanity. Their lives entwined, they face an encroaching horror. Through a bizarre twist of seemingly coincidental circumstances, a band of strangers now find themselves under Montana's big dark sky. Mass murder is the only way to see his frightening manifesto come to pass. All the while, on the outskirts of Rustling Willows, a madman lurks with a vision to save the future. They are haunted, on the run, obsessed, and seeking answers to the same omniscient danger Joanna came to confront.

People from all walks of life have converged at the remote ranch. She isn't the only one drawn to the Montana farmstead. Heeding the disturbing appeals, Joanna is compelled to return to Montana, and to a strange childhood companion she had long forgotten. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe with only misty memories of the past, she begins to receive pleas-by phone, through her TV, in her dreams: I am in a dark place, Jojo. A group of strangers bound by terrifying synchronicity becomes humankind's hope of survival in an exhilarating, twist-filled novel by Dean Koontz, the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.Īs a girl, Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life.

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