Baltimore, 1966. A twelve-year-old girl is about to discover that some monsters are real. So far 1966 hasn't been so great for 12-year-old Dara Burke. Her parents fight all the time, and her little brother Alvey is a royal pain. But none of that matters because it's finally summer! Now she and her best friend Fran can ride their bikes, go to Oriole baseball games, or just hang out. Until the day when the dead boy whispers in Dara's ear. Warning her about the bad man who was coming for her and her brother. Across town, Baltimore Patrolman Stan Gorsky also looks forward to summer crab feasts and cold bottles of Natty Boh. But then the first little boy dies under mysterious circumstances. More deaths and strange incidents follow. As evil threatens Dara and those she loves, Officer Gorsky frantically follows the trail of a merciless killer who hunts the little children of Baltimore. A killer who is always one step ahead. As the bad man circles his prey, can young Dara save her brother's life . . . and her own?