Seize the Night (Moonlight Bay Trilogy, Book 2): An unputdownable thriller of suspense and danger Koontz, Dean

Christopher Snow is back in Moonlight Bay, California — and the town's genetic experiments have gotten worse. Born with XP, a rare disorder that makes sunlight lethal, Chris lives in the dark. Now children are vanishing, pulled into underground tunnels by something that shouldn't exist. With his dog Orson, his surfer best friend Bobby, and girlfriend Sasha, Chris descends into a nightmare beneath the town where military science has created horrors that hunt in the blackness. Koontz writes taut, propulsive horror here — equal parts mystery, science thriller, and creature feature. The XP angle gives everything an inverted atmosphere: danger happens after dark, and Chris is most alive when everyone else is asleep. This is smart genre fiction that moves like a freight train. For readers who like their horror grounded in plausible science gone wrong, or anyone who tore through *Fear Nothing* and needs to know what happens next.