The Preserve at Winterthur-fountainhead of the sustainable community to come, ambitious experiment in the ingenuity of one small group of individuals to face the rigors of a rugged new age-is taking shape. No longer a concept on paper, the jumbled dreams of a roundtable discussion five years hence, efforts have ramped up. David Farreday has proven himself as an architect in both corporate and private practice for twelve years-and Ella, his young wife of seven years, declares him the perfect husband, a scholarly and artistic man who's not afraid to get his hands dirty. He should feel at the...

Mysticism overlays the endeavors of the Winterthur Preserve, as unseen forces from the outside continue their assault on the young Irishman in their midst, striving to claim his gifts for their own. Slowly, he makes the transition from his powers controlling him to him controlling them. What is the origin of this double-edged legacy-these premonitions and unsettling dreams of a distant past and a frightening future? A letter, long held in safekeeping, yields a clue to his background-not what he thought at all. Shattered at first, determination wells up in him to search out his true past....