One Door Away From Heaven: Dean Koontz

Mickey Bellsong has a habit of making the wrong choices - she wants to change but can't find her way. She is living with an aunt in a dusty trailer park on the edge of the Californian dream. There she meets Leilani Maddoc, a precocious, dazzling nine-year old with one leg in a brace and a deformed hand. Despite the child's bouyant spirit, Mickey senses a fear that the girl dare not express. Then the Maddoc family vanishes. And no-one seems to care. Mickey sets off across America to find the Maddocs and discovers she has an enemy both fearsome and cunning.