To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw-- and felt-- what made Derry so horribly different. In the stormdrains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing killing ... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing....

A screenwriter working on a script for a romantic movie, is having a hard time as he ruins every relationship he has. He then meets a girl who captures his heart, only to find out she's already engaged.

Simple text reveals the anticipation of a boy who, having planted seeds while everything around is brown, fears that something has gone wrong until, at last, the world turns green.

London's finest bonesetter, Hanna Zaydan, the daughter of foreign merchants, is slowly seduced by a new patient--a mysterious former soldier--who threatens to destroy everything she's worked so hard for.