An island beach with pristine white sands... a man with a supernatural gift... a precocious five-year-old girl... and a looming danger. Cotton Chastain's gift of Second Sight has always set him apart. And he accepted that...until now. He's just beginning to get acquainted with Mattie Sands and her five-year-old daughter Sara who come to the beach on Santa Rosa Island every day. They've touched his heart in a way he can't quite explain. But when disgruntled environmentalists sabotage an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and millions of gallons of oil spill into the ocean, the self-serving decision of an oil executive creates a catastrophe no one could have seen coming. No one, that is, except Cotton, whose gift of seeing into the future may be the only thing that will save a little girl's life.