When her sister, Shannon, was killed in a sudden and tragic accident, Courtney rushed to the North Dakota ranch to help the grieving family. Shannon and her husband, Adam, were living in a large historic ranch house named "Northwind." The US Government had bought the property and built a nuclear missile storage site on it. With the Cold War over, the government assigned Adam the task of dismantling the site. Their four-year-old daughter, Megan, loved to ride horseback with her mother and couldn't understand why her mother didn't come home from her recent ride.

From her upstairs bedroom...

Justine was still bewildered by the bizarre events that caused her desperate flight from the love and comfort of her childhood home on the coast of Maine to this lonely house. Though it seemed much longer, Justine had lived in the land's end mansion called Sea Watch for just one week. Sea Watch clung to soaring cliffs above the confluence of the Brigand River and the Pacific. She looked through the dusty windows toward the beach. The tall man with dark hair and dark clothing was there again. This is the third evening she watched him walking on the beach at sunset. She knew nothing about him...