Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific
childhood year Dan has been drifting for decades desperate to shed his fathers
legacy of despair alcoholism and violence Finally he settles in a New Hampshire
town an AA community that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his
remnant shining power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying Aided by a
prescient cat he becomes Doctor Sleep Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone
and it is her spectacular gift the brightest shining ever seen that reignites
Dans own demons and summons him to a battle for Abras soul and survival S