The place is New Biggsburg, an Upstate New York city that's long past its good days.
In fact, the city is very much fading away.
The time is now.
We're with Kate McCleary, a young 12th Grade English teacher at New Biggsburg High. Recently divorced, Kate is trying to hold onto her life while she feels like it is slipping away from her. Kate feels her life in New Biggsburg is the sunset of her dreams.
To add to the gloom, Jordan Polak, a psychic undertaker and Kate's best friend, thinks Kate's neighbor and one-time student across the street-Bertrand Rupp-is up to no good. In fact, Jordan has a premonition that he's a killer. And what starts as a kind of parlor game between Kate and Jordan-watching Bert Rupp and speculating on his nighttime romps-ends up being much more . . .
We're with Bertrand Rupp, a stammering, towering twenty-year-old whose corpus callosum-the connecting pathway between the lobes of his brain-has been severed to prevent seizures. But the surgery didn't work on poor Bert.
It really didn't work.
We're with Deputy Emmet Lemon, Whitney County Sheriff, who suspects the big and bumbling judge's son is up to no good, too. There have been three horrible murders of women in New Biggsburg, they that all seem to be linked. Deputy Lemon is getting close to proving something about his lead suspect, but the State Police seem to be in his way- blocking his investigation of the judge's son.
What's really going on with Bertrand Rupp? Where does he really go when he takes those late night walks? Where does he go during a seizure, when the light in his eyes fades away? What Bertrand Rupp does . . . he does not know. What he does, he does not remember.
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