When he was nine years old, Christopher Elkins was kidnapped and only the intervention of a mysterious young man saves him. Who is he? A few years later, he meets an older teenager while playing baseball and something about the teen makes him feel strange, but he can't say what it is that he feels. A group of bullies decide the Chris is a good target, but when they make plans to get him, someone comes to the rescue and saves him. Who is He? Soon Christopher and his family find themselves in the middle of a skirmish that is part of a century's long war between supernatural races and the stakes are Chris's life, maybe even his soul. Who is this mysterious benefactor who always seems to show up when Chris needs him the most? Who is he?