After discovering through a dying friend that she has a nephew, Sarah sets out to find the child and bring him home to live with her. Tommy lives in an orphanage in Dallas, where he spends most of his time alone. Other children fear him because of his past. Only one child, a street-wise boy named Jeremiah, has befriended him. Jeremiah is the one who discovers that Tommy is being abused and reports this to the caregiver. When Martin Stone sees that he has been caught, he breaks Tommy's arm in an effort to cause a diversion and then jumps out of a window. After spending time in the ICU in the hospital, two new secrets have been discovered about Tommy. Tommy has the ability to heal others around him, and he has been branded by the symbol of a secret cult called the Cult of the Blood Rose. William Morgan is the main villain in this novel, leader of Cult of the Blood Rose. His mind is so twisted that he thinks that he should rule the world. His followers have infiltrated nearly every level of government throughout the world. He has conducted genetic experiments in the past. He seeks out children with special abilities, such as ESP or foresight, and uses them for his own demented purposes. With Tommy's abilities, he assumes that he can have immortality. Morgan also thrives on the torture of children and his most trusted and more secretive followers share his sick desires. Forming his own religion, he holds regular sacrifices deep within his lair, a cave somewhere in East Texas. Morgan had entrusted Tommy's procurement to Martin, who had become infatuated with the child and tried to keep him to himself. Martin was killed when he tried to take Tommy from the hospital, but Morgan has many other agents working to find Tommy and bring him back to the Cult of the Blood Rose. In the meantime, Sarah has found Tommy and taken him back home with her to live. She does not realize the danger that she is in until she begins to uncover some of Tommy's past. When Morgan's plan to rule the world is enacted, he vents his anger on the city of Dallas first for the failure in returning Tommy from there. Several people follow Tommy to Tyler; those who want to help him, and those who want to capture him and return to Morgan for a great reward. Karen is the psychologist pretending to want to help Tommy, but she really has a plan of her own. When the opportunity arises, she kidnaps Tommy to return him to Morgan. Through the abilities of another gifted child, the people trying to help Tommy are able to follow him to Morgan's lair. They band together in an effort to rescue him from Morgan. In the final climax of this novel, Tommy will sacrifice himself, using his ability to heal and turn Morgan's desires against him.