Roy Wudestoke gave up everything for a job that seemed too good to be true: a house, a double salary, and nothing to do but rock on a porch and watch a quiet residential block. Thirteen years later, he is forty-seven, alone, and drowning in regret over the people his complacency has gotten killed. When a red-haired woman appears on the block and Roy recognizes her as the little girl whose parents he inadvertently marked for death a decade ago, he realizes the long game he has been an unwilling piece of is finally moving toward its terrifying endgame. With a shapeshifting monster hidden inside a teenage boy, a time-traveling stranger who keeps appearing across decades and state lines, and a shadowy corporation pulling strings from the shadows, Roy has to decide if a man who has spent his whole life sitting on the sidelines has what it takes to finally do the right thing.