This exclusive eBook short story looks back—way back—to where everything began for Odd Thomas and Stormy Llewellyn, two souls who are destined to become together forever.

Amid the dizzying rides, tantalizing games of chance, and fanciful attractions of circumstances fair, two teenage sweethearts on the cusp of life and love’s pleasures find their way to a shadowy carnival tent brimming with curiosities. There, in the bizarre and enthralling Gypsy Mummy, a mechanized product owner of dreams and prognosticator of tomorrows, the youthful couple learns what fate promises to them. But destiny, for Odd Thomas and Stormy Llewellyn, is definitely something entirely different: filled with dark corners, sharpened edges, and stuff no seer or soothsayer could ever anticipate.

As well as for Odd Thomas, a gallant fry make from a sleepy California desert town, the future beckons—to listen to unquiet spirits, pursue unsettling mysteries, and find out shocking truths . for an objective much larger than himself.