Publisher's Synopsis
One boy in each generation of the Moreaux family is given the ability to fade, to become invisible. In the summer of 1938, teenager Paul Moreaux, inherits the gift - or the curse. Paul begins to explore the possibilities this new power offers and issoon seeing things it is better not to see, and learning things it is better not to know. Despite a lifelong struggle with the fade, Paul succeeds in becoming a famous writer and the fade passes on to his nephew, threatening to overpower him. At theend of this gripping thriller, Paul must help to save Ozzie from the curse that is the fade.