On the hottest Fourth of July weekend in decades, two men have come to
Hopewell, Illinois, site of a lengthy, bitter steel strike. One is a
demon, dark servant of the Void, who will use the anger and frustration
of the community to attain a terrible secret goal. The other is John
Ross, a Knight of the Word, a man who, while he sleeps, lives in the
hell the world will become if he fails to change its course on waking.
Ross has been given the ability to see the future. But does he have the
power to change it? At stake is the soul of a fourteen-year-old girl
mysteriously linked to both men. And the lives of the people of
Hopewell. And the future of the country.