What if a high-tech stranger in a glittering metallic box showed up outside your door and offered you anything you wanted? Could you resist? Would you want to? And what if you found out too late that the fulfillment of your dreams came with a terrifying price -- an inescapable one-way trip not only through the eternal torment of that box, but also through the dark recesses of your own soul? That's the temptation confronting Jim and Deborah Douglas and their small-town Oklahoma friends when the dark stranger appears on their property. Jim is well-liked by his buddies and they look to him for advice, but his job with the water department never prepared him for what lurks inside that box. Before Jim and the others can fully understand what -- or who -- they're dealing with, they're trapped, one after the other, by a power that can probe their hidden secrets -- their darkest fears and ugliest desires -- and bring them to a screaming reality. It will take all the strength, all the courage -- and all the faith -- Jim can muster to save his friends and family. Because the only way to set himself and the others free is to confront the dark within. Within the box -- and himself. A masterful blend of horror and fantasy, Dark Within is a Kafkaesque journey to Steinbeck's Cannery Row via the Twilight Zone. This is a book like none you've ever read before, and one you'll never forget -- especially when the lights are out.