In the Heart of the Fire (Nameless: Season One, #1)

by Dean Koontz

Life is a weave of infinite possibilities, though some are more likely than others.

Certain events are lightly sketched on the future and can be erased. Others are woven into the fabric of all that is to come and resist being unraveled.

This is his life: confrontation with the darkness that has nothing to do with an absence of light.

His clairvoyance is time travel achieved without leaving the present. The curtains of the past part, and he sees what has been; the mists of the future clear, and he sees an event yet to occur.

Now and then, the experience is more than just seeing; he enters the scene as though living it, all five senses involved.

A sullen gray sky overtakes the blue, wind replaces stillness, the wild grass shudders, warm air is banished by a chill, but there is no sound in this vignette.

Those who are corrupted in turn corrupt the innocent. That is the only purpose of humanity: to deceive, to use, to dominate and destroy.

What happened to me! Broken. Damaged. Lost.