After being wrongfully held for months by Homeland Security in his hometown of Los Angeles, fourteen-year-old Jesse, who knows little of his true identity, tries to keep a low profile in his new foster home in a small midwestern prairie town but the arrival of an eccentric new girl with seemingly supernatural powers draws him inexorably into a struggle with the terrifying forces of evil.
Just before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, an anti-American Muslim group gains power in Java, and Isaac, the twelve-year-old son of American missionary doctors, finds his world turned upside-down.
