Blackcollar

Blackcollar by Zahn, Timothy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781416509257.

Graham Smith is a 33 year-old office messenger. To the outside world hes an obsessive-compulsive mute - weird but harmless. But to Graham Smith, its the world thats weird. And far from harmless. He sees things others cant . . . or wont. He knows that roads can change course, people disappear, office blocks migrate across town. All at night when no ones looking. The worlds an unstable place, still growing, sloughing off layers of reality like dead skin. One day you drive by, and its changed. Annalise Mercado hears voices, all from girls calling themselves Annalise. Sometimes she thinks theyre spirit guides, sometimes she thinks shes crazy. But then they start telling her about Graham Smith and the men who want to kill him. Thats when they meet. So begins the story of two people whose lives are fragmented across alternate realities. And how the hold the key to the future of a billion planets. . . .