The second stand-alone novel in the Jack Sawyer trilogy, from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, "an intelligent . . . suspenseful page-turner" (Wall Street Journal) from "two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game" (Washington Post).
Could the past he thought he'd escaped be reaching out to him from the Black House . . .
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called the Territories in search of the talisman to save his mother's life. Now Jack is a former Los Angeles homicide detective living in the quiet town of French Landing in Wisconsin. But a series of murders involving young children force him out of retirement.
If Jack is to save the latest victim, he must retrieve his childhood memories and revisit the one place he never wanted to see again . . .
