Who is the kid of Night? That’s what small-town reporter Will Barbee must find out. Inexorably drawn into investigating a allergy of grisly deaths, he soon finds himself embroiled in something significantly beyond mortal understanding.

Doggedly pursuing his investigations, he meets the mysterious and seductive April Bell and starts having disturbing, tantalizing dreams in which he does terrible things-things that are stranger and wilder than his worst nightmares. After that his friends start dying one at a time, and he slowly realizes an unspeakable bad has been unleashed.

As Barbee’s world crumbles around him in a dizzying blizzard of madness, the intoxicating, harmful April pushes Barbee ever nearer to the response to the query “Who is the kid of Evening?”

When Barbee finds out, he’ll wish he’d never been born.