Five characters, with gifts they do not fully understand, are mysteriously brought together to battle growing pockets of darkness throughout the world. Chad Thorton, the newest member of the team, thinks it's time to transform from a hastily assembled gaggle of individuals to a team with a focus, a mission, and a home base. The others resist the idea ... until they're all targeted in their various home towns. They come together, battered and confused, to the hotel that is Chad's chosen headquarters--but they'll soon find out that they're not safe even there.