Peter Hansen seems to have everything in his life under control. He's a second-year law student at Georgetown and his girlfriend, Susan, is a charming, attractive political science major.

But then one day everything changes. In a flash of light, Peter's eyes are opened to a secret battle between good and evil. Mixed into the masses of people in the world, and visible only to each other, are two types of people: the Chosen and the Shadows. Peter struggles to find out why he has become one of the Chosen, and what being Chosen means.

Peter is guided by his criminal law professor, Benjamin...