Going Home in the Dark

From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Dean Koontz, comes a novel that reminds us that some hometown horrors never really leave you.

So, picture this: a small, idyllic town called Maple Grove. As kids, Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were the classic group of inseparable outcasts, the "four amigos." Fast forward two decades. Three of them got out and made something of themselves, chasing and catching their dreams. But Ernie? Ernie never left. When he suddenly falls into a coma, the other three feel an unshakeable urge to return. After all, they have this nagging feeling… Didn't people fall into comas back then, too? And those people always woke up… or did they?

Coming home is weird. Not much has changed on the surface—especially Ernie’s genuinely scary and awful mother. But as the friends spend more time in Maple Grove, other things start to come back. Little flashes of memory. A hulking, murderous figure lurking in the shadows. A deep, pervasive strangeness layered over a mystery they were all somehow forced to forget.

The thing is, as Ernie sinks deeper into the darkness, it becomes clear that something else is waiting for them. Something that is actively trying to stop any friend from saving him. For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, it’s a desperate race against time to unbury the terrors of their past. And for the town of Maple Grove? Well, it finally has its "four amigos" back in its grasp, and it might not be willing to let them go a second time.