Tori Breyer has lost all hope of becoming a mother someday, when a mysterious baby arrives in her life. Little Brandon is everything she and her husband, Kyle, have always dreamed about: he’s a little boy awake, gifted and curious about everything. But at the approach of puberty, something as powerful as sinister is manifested in him. Tori soon has dreadful doubts about his son. From now on, Brandon acts only to satisfy his terrible needs, and even his relatives are in grave danger while the miraculous child is transformed into a formidable predator who is unleashed on their small town without history …