In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in the wilderness from the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, and his magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from darkness into light . and into an encounter with enchantment. That night time, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular pets will watch Grady’s isolated home, waiting to create their approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, an area veterinarian, starts to unravel the threads of the puzzle that may bring about Breathless to her door all the forces of a authorities in peril. At a nearby farm, long-estranged similar twins get together to begin with a descent into darkness. . . . In Las Vegas, an expert in chaos theory probes the limitations from the unknowable. . . . On a Seattle course, two men make matter-of-fact preparations for murder. . . . Along a highway by the ocean, a vagrant scarred by days gone by begins a trek toward his destiny. In a novel that is simultaneously wholly of our time and classic, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz requires listeners in to the second between one switch from the world and another, across the border between understanding and mystery. It really is a journey that will keep all who consider it Breathless.