For a millennium the Others have maintained an uneasy peace that has protected them and the Twilight a shadowy parallel world beneath our own. But the battle for supremacy between the forces of the Light and the Darkness is far from over . . . Now older and more powerful Light magician Anton Gorodestsky has risen to the top levels of the Night Watch. He is also father to a ten-year-old girl who is destined to become a magician of unprecedented power. When he hears a young boy at the airport screaming that a plane will crash Anton suspects the child is a prophet—a rare type of Other who portends catastrophe. If Anton is right than the boy has awakened a terrifying danger—a rare multifaced beast that exists to stop the prophecy from coming true. With all of their lives in mortal peril and time running out Anton must to find a way to keep his gifted young daughter safe . . . and save the Twilight itself.