Little Timothy Cutter woke from a bad dream to find himself in a nightmare of sudden, shattering orphanhood. He said he knew what happened to his parents. But no one he told believed him.... [only[ one person did believe Timothy-- A drifter named Robert Thorn, who came after Timothy from a hellhole south of the border...to take the little boy with him beyond the border of sanity to a world of darkness where a fiend in human form killed with a kiss...