Lea's decision doesn't sit well with her husband Mark, who has been experiencing stress over the backlash for his recent child psychology book.

Their strangeness also stands out to Lea and Mark's children Elena and Ira, who find it hard to trust Daniel and Samuel.

With the help of a woman named Martha Swann from Cape Le Chat Noir, Lea realizes that the twins are actually the product of a failed ritual to reanimate the dead in the 1930s.

Lea also realizes that she herself was a product of a similar, separate ritual, having died during the hurricane during her visit to Cape Le Chat Noir.

The book ends with Mark and his sister Roz looking on in horror as they watch her son Axl use similar powers as Daniel and Samuel, claiming that they taught him a trick.

[2] An outline for the novel was approved by Stacy Creamer, the vice president and publisher for Touchstone,[2] and the book took him four months to write.

[11] Slate's Katy Waldman commented that Red Rain was too controlled and bogged down in detail, and that the novel's dominant tone was "elegiac rather than exciting", explaining: "Passages linger over the aftermath of destruction—a house’s splintered remains, a charred body—rather than the unwinding blow of it.

"[12] The Piece of S**t Bookclub gave it 0 out of 10, calling it "an embarrassment" with poor dialogue, thinly drawn characters and long stretches of word repetition, such that "removing the parts of the novel which are actively insulting to one’s intelligence would reduce it to ten percent of its size.