When people touch me, I foresee their deaths.

The visions are mine. Only I can choose what to do about them.

While traveling cross-country searching for the blood and pain I'd foreseen in a vision, I landed in rural Ohio courtesy of a kindly soul. Lou was a good woman, a solid, faithful, salt of the Earth type.

And on Friday, she was going to die.

I'd long ago learned that nothing I did would deter fate's course. But I couldn't leave Ohio without trying to save Lou.

Fate, though, had more in store for her than a simple death by hit-and-run. Far more. And her fate brought me face to face with a terror from my own past, a terror I had to stop before it used Lou to unleash the wild magic and create something much worse than the death I had foreseen.