Willie Leitch, a journalist, returns to his home town to report on a major news story and finds himself confronted by dark secrets from the past. Two 12-year-old girls have been abducted; one has definitely been brutally murdered and the other is assumed to be dead. Expected to provide his newspaper with special insight into the events, Willie finds that as the story unfolds it seems that his own past is entangled with these gruesome killings and his future compromised by them. A novel of rare power, dark passions, and naked evil