Sleepwalk Author:John Saul Summoned back to her small desert hometown, Judith Sheffield is relieved to find Borrego unchanged...at least on the surface. Even Frank Arnold, widowed union head at the oil refinery, whose son she used to babysit for when she was a teenager, is still in Borrego -- and still as devastatingly attractive as ever. — Burned out from teaching in the ... more »barrios of Los Angeles, Judith is eager for Borrego's quiet... and a healing romance with Frank. But soon she senses an evil force at work in the town....
It begins with a "sleepwalker's" fall from a high desert cliff to her death -- a teenage girl's seeming suicide. For Frank's troubled, half-Indian son Jed, who discovers the corpse, it is a horrible reminder of his own mother's suicide, years before. Meanwhile, Frank investigates a giant chemical company that seeks to take over the refinery -- and lands in the hospital with a broken leg. When he suffers a series of mysterious strokes, Judith is terror-sticken.
Now only Jed can help her to discover why so many of the town's unruly youths have turned suddenly, scarily compliant, as if sleepwalking through their days. But unless he can make peace with his ancient Kokati powers, Judith too will become part of a fiendish experiment that is claiming human minds, and lives....« less