They watch as an out of control truck careers down the mountain road and smashes into the car they had just abandoned.

Then, one night whilst they are driving home from their mountain getaway her Guardian stops them and tells them they need to get off the road or they will die. After a couple of years her writing career really takes off, Danny and her have a son, Christopher, and Laura starts to forget all about her Guardian.

She goes to college, meets and marries Danny Packard and sets about life as an author. After managing to avoid his advances for a while the Eel ends up being severely beaten by her Guardian, however when Laura gets placed with the Dockweilers, a foster family that she really likes, the Eel turns up and attacks her at their house, Laura fights him off and kills him but her foster Mother comes home and, due to a heart condition, the shock kills her.Īfter her Guardian failed to save her from the Eel and after Ruth Ackerson is killed in a fire Laura starts to believe he doesn’t exist. Sheener has a history of abusing girls in the home, but has never formally been accused. She also comes into the sights of the perverted caretaker, Willy Sheener, also known as the Eel. She also sees him at the cemetery when her Father dies of a heart attack when she is 12 years old.įollowing her Father’s death Laura is sent to McIlroy Home, an orphanage, where she meets and becomes friends with twins, Thelma and Ruth Ackerson. The next time the stranger appears is when she is 8 years old and he saves her from a junkie who holds up her Dad’s grocery store and is going to rape Laura. Her mother dies in labour but Laura is fine. On the night she is born a mysterious blonde man prevents Dr Markwell, a drunk Obstetrician, from delivering Laura. The adventure - and the terror - has only just begun.“Lightning” tells the tale of Laura Shane, who goes through a large part of her life believing she has a “Special Guardian”. Then the lightning strikes once more and shatters her world. Read more a novelist, and her happy family life, Laura cannot shake the certainty that powerful and malignant forces are controlling her destiny. Throughout her childhood she is plagued by ever more terrifying troubles, and with increasing courage she finds the strength to prevail - even without the intervention of her strange guardian. though eight-year-old Laura is saved by a mysterious stranger from the perverted and deadly intentions of a drug-crazed robber. The second time it strikes the terror starts. The first time the lightning strikes Laura Shane is born. The No.1 bestselling classic from Dean Koontz, the master of chilling suspense, that will thrill fans of Stephen King and the Odd Thomas series. 'Not just a master of our darkest dreams but also a literary juggler' THE TIMES on Dean Koontz.

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