Brian guessed he should have been grateful when Mr. Stockbridge pressed the tin soldier into his hand. It wasn't every child at Windhaven Orphanage who received a present from the formidable Raymond Stockbridge. But Brian wasn't happy at all. In fact, Brian was scared...

His best friend Davey had disappeared and already his clothes and comic books had vanished—as if Davey had never existed. But Brian knew his friend's most secret hiding place. And there, with a chill of terror, he found another tin soldier exactly like the one Mr. Stockbridge had given him.

It was all a deadly game—and now it was Brian's turn to play...