In June of 1953 Mark Antonich celebrates his twelfth birthday-and the beginning of a long summer he hopes will be filled with backyard reading, swimming in the town pool, and hanging out with his next-door cousin Tony Zivich. An ordinary summer in a small Connecticut farming town outside New Haven.But everything changes when his leisurely, dreamy days abruptly turn into what becomes a frightening summer-nightmarish events that will color the rest...