Law of nines. Terry Goodkind. 2009.

They watch you through mirrors………

’Your mother was twenty-seven when it came to her. Now you’re twenty-seven, and it’s come to you.’

The skin of Alex’s arms tingled with goose bumps. By her twenty-seventh birthday insanity had come to his mother…….

Turning 27 May be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the mid-western United States, it is cataclysmic. Inheriting a huge expanse of land should have made him a rich and happy man; but something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he just saved, has suddenly made him  - and everyone he loves - into a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence……

Where do you turn when your own reflection spells doom?