Amazon.com description: Product Description: What makes a person kill? Is it an evil within or an evil that surrounds? Is it like a light switch that flicks someone into darkness or quicksand that slowly engulfs? Welcome to Hamlin. A town where nothing much ever happens. A small town that people spend their lives trying to escape. A sleepy town that is about to be awakened by a great evil. About to be shrouded in an unrecoverable darkness. The wrath of a boy lost, a boy now a man, consumed by hatred and revenge. Events so unthinkable that the echoes left will never be silenced. How long does it take to expel a darkness within? In Hamlin, it takes just 12 days.