Book One Door Away from Heaven by Dean Koontz Mass Market Paperback FIRST BANTAM MASS MARKET EDITION 2002 Author: Dean Koontz Publisher: Bantam Format: Mass Market Paperback. First Bantam Mass Market Edition. Release Date: 2002 Dimensions: 7 x 4.25 x 1.25 in Weight: 11.8 oz No. of Pages: 681 Pages ISBN: 978-0553582758 Condition: Pre-Owned in Good Condition. Covers have signs of wear. The front cover has an approx. 1/2? vertical rip where is meets the spine at the bottom. There is creasing on the exterior spine. The last few pages have some spot stains on them. The remaining interior is in Very Good Condition. Book is structurally sound with no detached pages. Please see photographs for details as they are considered part of the description. SYNOPSIS: In a dusty trailer park on the far edge of the California dream, Michelina Bellsong contemplates the choices she has made. At twenty-eight, she wants to change the direction of her troubled life but can?t find her way?until a new family settles into the rental trailer next door and she meets the young girl who will lead her on a remarkable quest that will change Micky herself and everything she knows?or thinks she knows?forever. Despite the brace she must wear on her deformed left leg, and her withered left hand, nine-year-old Leilani Klonk radiates a buoyant and indomitable spirit that inspires Micky. Beneath Leilani?s effervescence, however, Micky comes to sense a quiet desperation that the girl dares not express. Leilani?s mother is little more than a child herself. And the girl?s stepfather, Preston Maddoc, is educated but threatening. He has moved the family from place to place as he fanatically investigates UFO sightings, striving to make contact, claiming to have had a vision that by Leilani?s tenth birthday aliens will either heal her or take her away to a better life on their world. Slowly, ever more troubling details emerge in Leilani?s conversations with Micky. Most chilling is Micky?s discovery that Leilani had an older brother, also disabled, who vanished after Maddoc took him into the woods one night and is now ?gone to the stars.? Leilani?s tenth birthday is approaching. Micky is convinced the girl will be dead by that day. While the child-protection bureaucracy gives Micky the runaround, the Maddoc family slips away into the night. Micky sets out across America to track and find them, alone and afraid but for the first time living for something bigger than herself. She finds herself pitted against an adversary, Preston Maddoc, as fearsome as he is cunning. The passion and disregard for danger with which Micky pursues her quest bring to her side a burned-out detective who joins her on a journey of incredible peril and startling discoveries, a journey through terrible darkness to unexpected light. One Door Away From Heaven is an incandescent mix of suspense and humor, fear and wonder, a story of redemption and timeless wisdom that will have readers cheering. Filled with tragedy and joy, with terror and hope, it solidifies Dean Koontz?s reputation as one of the foremost storytellers of our time. This is Dean Koontz at his very best?and it doesn?t get any better than that. **Smoke Free Home**