After a spate of sinister drownings in Darkmere a pontoon is built over the centre of the lake. The pontoon is covered and sealed off from the public. The residents of Darkmere assume the pontoon has something to do with police forensics but Thomas and Emily are not so convinced. When Emily discovers the infinite black Hole impossibly holding back the lake water beneath the pontoon, it sets in motion a chain of events that changes their lives terribly forever.
Jeremiah and Shae-nae know of the horror on the other side of the Hole because they've been there. When the Hole spits them out in Darkmere they are just glad to be alive, but they soon realise to their horror, that they are not the only things to have been spat out by the Hole.
All four teenagers are bound by a fate that began drawing them together thousands of years before they were even born. Now they are fatefully united in Darkmere at the most crucial moment in the world's history. Levi Washington intends to reveal to the world the secret of the Hole. It is a secret that will cause a shattering change in the fortunes of the human race.
