Christopher Snow is handsome enough, intelligent, romantic, funny, but his whole life has been affected by xeroderma pigmentosum; a rare genetic disorder that means his skin and eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight. Chris therefore lives at night and has never ventured beyond his hometown of Moonlight Bay. But for all the inhabitants of Moonlight Bay — a terrible change is about to happen, a change of potentially catastrophic proportions...

Christopher Snow suffers from a rare genetic disorder - Xeroderma pigmentosum. His skin and eyes cannot be exposed to sunlight, so his life begins at midnight. He has never ventured beyond his hometown of Moonlight Bay, a place of picturesque beauty and haunting strangeness.

The first title in a new series of novels by Dean Koontz, featuring protagonist Christopher Snow and set in the town of Moonlight Bay. Because he suffers from a rare genetic disorder, Snow can not venture out in sunlight and so starts his day at midnight... From the author of "Sole Survivor" and "Intensity".