When Steve McCord arrived at the isolated town of Hellmouth, he thought he had found a kind of paradise on earth. The inhabitants seemed kind and gentle, their lives tranquil. But one thing was wrong. On the map, the town did not exist--and had not for sixty years. With growing horror, Steve began to realize he was trapped in an abyss of time, and his mind was about to be taken over by a creature set on swallowing up the entire Earth.