Doctor Sleep

In this immediately gripping book about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals, Stephen King returns to the characters and setting of one of his most well-known novels ever, The Shining.

On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. With their abundance of polyester, age, and marriage to their RVs, they seem innocent. However, as the feisty 12-year-old Abra Stone discovers and Dan Torrance discovers, The True Knot are essentially immortal, having survived on the "steam" produced by children who have the "shining" while they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant "shining" power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. With the help of an ominous cat, he transforms into "Doctor Sleep."

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted fans of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.