The Law of Nines

They watch you through mirrors... 'Your mother was twenty-seven when it came to her. Now you're twenty-seven, and it's come to you. 'The skin of Alex's arms tingled with goose bumps. By her twenty-seventh birthday insanity had come to his mother....' Turning 27 may be terrifying for some, but for Alexander, a struggling artist in small-town Nebraska, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land in Maine should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him - and everyone he loves - into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence... Where do you turn when your own reflection spells doom? In Alex, Terry Goodkind brings to life a modern hero in a whole new kind of thriller.