The Midnight Effect

A wounded cop. A frightened woman. A desperate race to save a child in danger... In a single phone call, Lily Brent's entire life--past and future--becomes foggy with confusion and danger. Her estranged sister is dead, and the body is lacking one definitive mark: a surgery scar from the kidney Lily thought she'd donated to her sister long ago. There's more than a mystery on her hands. There's a niece she never knew she had, and a madman on her trail who's hell-bent on getting the child back. When a beautiful woman crashes her car into his remote mountain gas station, followed closely by a man with a silencer-equipped pistol, three years of inactive duty fall away as Miles Goodwin springs into action. He saves Lily and her golden child, but nothing can save him from the painful reminder of the family he lost. Retreating to his emotional coma, however, isn't an option; they're far from safe. There's something strange about a six-year-old girl who's never eaten a hamburger or heard of Tinkerbell--and who seems to be the source of psychic phenomena so powerful, someone's willing to kill to get her back.