Endless Doors, Secret Windows

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  • Alex
  • Cannon
  • is
  • 14
  • years
  • old
  • in
  • 1968
  • and
  • will
  • soon
  • graduate
  • from
  • a
  • poor
  • Catholic
  • school
  • on
  • Chicago's
  • South
  • Side.
  • He
  • is
  • still
  • coping
  • with
  • his
  • mother's
  • death
  • three
  • years
  • earlier
  • when
  • during
  • a
  • recess
  • basketball
  • game
  • at
  • school,
  • his
  • life
  • is
  • saved
  • by
  • a
  • scream
  • from
  • a
  • new
  • student
  • which
  • not
  • only
  • warns
  • him
  • of
  • an
  • imminent
  • explosion
  • on
  • the
  • school
  • grounds
  • but
  • uses
  • his
  • secret
  • name
  • -
  • a
  • name
  • only
  • known
  • to
  • Alex
  • and
  • his
  • late
  • mother.Thus
  • begins
  • his
  • friendship
  • with
  • Jimmy
  • O'Day;
  • a
  • boy
  • possessed
  • of
  • an
  • extraordinary
  • gift
  • of
  • foresight
  • but
  • who
  • believes
  • he
  • is
  • cursed
  • by
  • his
  • frequent
  • and
  • terrifying
  • visions
  • of
  • death.Jimmy's
  • visions
  • soon
  • begin
  • to
  • focus
  • on
  • an
  • overwhelming
  • evil
  • he
  • calls
  • The
  • Dark
  • Sun;
  • a
  • serial
  • killer
  • who
  • is
  • terrorizing
  • the
  • city.
  • Along
  • with
  • his
  • new
  • friend
  • Alex,
  • he
  • is
  • sent
  • to
  • rural
  • Wisconsin
  • to
  • spend
  • the
  • summer
  • with
  • his
  • grandmother,
  • Evelyn
  • Driscoll.
  • She
  • is
  • a
  • powerful
  • seer
  • who
  • for
  • decades
  • has
  • controlled
  • the
  • chaos
  • of
  • her
  • visions
  • by
  • confining
  • them
  • to
  • her
  • beloved
  • "Doors
  • and
  • Windows";
  • a
  • wondrous
  • place
  • that
  • resembles
  • an
  • old
  • hotel,
  • except
  • that
  • its
  • corridors
  • seem
  • endless.
  • There
  • is
  • energy
  • behind
  • each
  • door
  • and
  • if
  • you
  • are
  • invited
  • to
  • unlock
  • it,
  • the
  • window
  • within
  • will
  • reveal
  • a
  • scene
  • from
  • the
  • future.From
  • this
  • secret
  • place
  • Jimmy
  • and
  • Alex
  • will
  • engage
  • in
  • a
  • dangerous
  • game
  • of
  • cat-and-mouse
  • with
  • the
  • most
  • brutal
  • killer
  • in
  • Chicago
  • history
  • since
  • Richard Speck.
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