Walking the streets of our cities are the Others These men and women have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world of magical power that exists alongside our own Each has sworn allegiance to one side: the Light, or the Darkness At Moscow airport, Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky overhears a child screaming about a plane that is about to crash He discovers that the child is a prophet: an Other with the gift of foretelling the future When the catastrophe is averted, Gorodetsky senses a disruption in the natural order, one that is confirmed by the arrival of a dark and terrifying predator Gorodetsky travels to London, to Taiwan and across Russia in search of clues, unearthing as he goes a series of increasingly cataclysmic prophecies He soon realises that what is at stake is the existence of the Twilight itself - and that only he will be able to save it