James Garden was once a celebrated writer. A Pulitzer Prize winner. A master of suspense.

Now, he can't write a single page.

Desperate for inspiration, James begins a new story ? a dark idea about watching, about people who observe others from the shadows. But when events from his writing start happening in real life... coincidence quickly turns into terror.

Across the city, a silent man named Jonas appears again and again ? always watching, always present. A detective, Morrison Kane, begins to uncover a pattern linking unexplained deaths, a missing manuscript, and a writer who may no longer be in control of his own story.