LIGHTNING Dean R. Koontz

THE SECOND TIME IT STRIKES
THE TERROR STARTS
From a grand master of menace, here is
an unforgettably haunting novel of ines-
capable and imperiled destiny.
Spirited Laura Shane lives a life whose
escapes and rewards are inevitably weighed
against the reckoning of a mysterious and
fearsome creditor. Her existence is marked
by crisis, from the hour of her birth on a
stormy January night in 1955, when "there
was a strangeness about the weather that
people would remember for years." She
narrowly escapes death as a stranger
materializes out of the blizzard to guard
her from the not-so-tender mercies of a
drunken doctor and ensure her safe passage
into the world.
The years go by, and ever more terrifying
troubles plague her, but with increasing
strength and courage Laura prevails-often
with the almost miraculous involvement of
the same stranger. She marries and be-
comes a mother but cannot shake the
growing certainty that powerful forces are
controlling her destiny.