The children whisper . . . Father Silence . . . On the night of his execution, Father Devlin Chambers leaves behind a dormant legacy of horror. Hours later a cop is murdered. Children are missing. Detective Karen Dawson, along with her estranged husband, a psychologist, battles her worst fears to hunt down the Outcast-a killer that seems eerily linked to the late Catholic priest. Noah Nichols, the only Father Silence survivor, is now a grown man, hopelessly lost in a tangle of multiple personalities. Inside his mind lies the key. But the truth may lie in Karen's memory.