Hilton was seven when his grandmother died, and it was a bad time. But it was worse when she died again...

Hilton James would have drowned before his ninth birthday if his beloved grandmother hadn't sacrificed her own life to save him -- one year after he had discovered her lifeless body lying on the kitchen floor. Now, thirty years later, she is coming to him again -- appearing in nightmares more vivid and horrible than anything he has ever experienced. As a racist, psychotic monster stalks his wife and children, Hilton James is trapped in the Between -- unable to separate the real from the surreal, the dream terrors from the waking ones -- and must race to solve the mystery before everything he loves slips violently and inalterably away.