Brody Quail is a guy without dreams . but he’s beginning to live a headache. He is available in four different lives, in four simultaneous identities: happy young boy, lovelorn teenager, damaged son, and pitiable middle-aged loner. He lives blissfully unacquainted with his divided character until some increasingly surreal experiences shakes this currently fragile equilibrium.

Time begins to avoid and begin for him only. Intimations of a recurring event haunt his thoughts, and a silent, shadowy presence watches and stalks him. As the barriers between his realities start to flicker and blur, Brody’s misunderstandings and fear find sympathetic understanding in Constance Drake, whose own sense of actuality seems to be fraying into terrifying incoherence. Threatened by madness and oblivion, Brody and Constance go on a eager seek out answers. The truth may set them free—or utterly eliminate them.