Sylvie Dixon has disappeared. Her car was found beside the road with a flat. The loss devastated the town of Emerald Grange and changed the lives of its inhabitants. Years later the town's most devious business man, Chuck Larson, is buried on the same day the rain begins. This is no ordinary storm. The rising flood reveals what happened to Sylvie and how the two were connected. Leroy Eicher, Sylvie's boyfriend at the time of the disappearance, and Mattie King, her best friend, must reawaken the feelings of loss from the mysterious disappearance. As strange sightings begin to occur around...

An enormous, enigmatic object appears suddenly in a limestone quarry in the flat lands of the midwest. A reporter, a security guard, and government operatives all seek the answer to what the object is, and why it has appeared. What they discover is not what any of them expect. This unpredictable thriller takes readers on a journey to the edges of quantum physics and also the inner reaches of the psyche. Each key character must come to terms with his or her past, as well as their common destiny.