The Sea Came in at Midnight

"In the final seconds of the old millennium, a young woman who has run away from home exchanges one dark destiny for another. Answering a cryptic personals ad, she finds haven with a man who is as obsessed as he is spiritually ravaged. In a locked room at the bottom of his house, he labors over his life's work: a massive blue calendar that attempts to pinpoint the actual beginning of the new millennium in May 1968. Her encounter with him will set her on a breathtaking journey across a modern landscape--an age when every life is a millennium into itself, and every soul seeks an answer to the question 'What is missing from the world?'"--Provided by publisher.