In 1992, Grant Beckett died on a quiet road that should have been safe. His best friend, Robert Bianchi, never got to say goodbye - and he was never able to shake the feeling that something had been watching, waiting, long before that day.

He was right.

Thirty years later, Grant is back - and he's brought a warning. Something has been growing in the dark beneath Barrow Marsh since long before either of them was born, and it has been waiting for its chance ever since Robert failed to stop it as a boy. Now it's stronger, and it's found a new target: a seven-year-old girl who never asked to be part of any of this.

To save her, Robert will have to find the friends he left behind, face what really happened to him all those years ago, and walk into a place built from nothing but human despair - a place where hope goes to die.

Something has wanted him to forget for thirty years. Now, the only way to survive is to remember: there is no such thing as an ordinary world.