'Your mother was twenty-seven when it came to her. Now you're twenty-seven and it's come to you.'

The skin of Alex's arms tingled with goosebumps. By her twenty-seventh birthday insanity had come to his mother ...

Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some but for Alex a struggling artist living in the mid-western United States it's cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday his name and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved has suddenly made him and everyone he loves into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence...

Where do you turn when your own reflection spells doom?

In Alex Terry Goodkind the NEW YORK TIMES #1 bestselling author brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of stunningly original high-octane page-turning thriller.