By the edge of North Carolina woods, behind an isolated modern house, The Watcher patiently waits. He knows all about the couple who live there, talented surgeon and successful businessman. He knows all about the people in their lives. He knows there are numb with grief. He knows what is going to happen next and why. For a doctor Natasha McCarty and her husband Ward their sons tragic death has shaped every moment in the last year. But to add to their pain, new strangeness the suddenly and go from them. Natasha's hands have begun to shake. A prize Memento has been stolen. Then a sword Scandal explodes out of nowhere nowhere, one that threatens everything they've built, and brings friends, strangers and enemies into their lives. And now as the anniversary of their son's death approaches, for reasons they can't guess, from a place they can't see, an extraordinary evil will emerge before their eyes. Because a killer has chosen this day as their last.