What happens when what you know can't explain what you experience? That's the crisis facing Kelsey Kane, a twenty-seven-year-old single mother who's desperately trying to build a life for her and her seven-year-old son. As she nears the end of her formal educationâand is tantalized by a life just beyond her reachâshe finds everything she's learned in graduate school is about to become academic. Kelsey will encounter a fierce reminder of the limits of logicâas well as her own insecuritiesâas she battles to save herself, her son, and her sanity from the clutches of a creature that can't existâbut which does.