


Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore. Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire. In 1969 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in a drug experiment run by a veiled government agency known as The Shop. He looked down at her and saw her face, so small, now so strange.

The hair on his arms suddenly began to stir and move, like kelp in an invisible tide. "Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge.
