Book excerpt: On the train platform in the dying town of Norton, Kansas, Michael Anderson is approached by Sarah Rogers, an anguished woman in search of the daughter kidnapped nine years earlier. It is the beginning of a personal odyssey that will take Michael to Denver and back to the Kansas plains and Angeltown. Along the way he will survive a blizzard with the help of two Indians named Bob and Steve, meet the beautiful Katherine Hodges, seek answers in the disappearance of several missing children, and pursue his destiny through the dreams that carry him to the very edge of madness.