A murderous madman plans to resurrect an ancient monster buried beneath a small Canadian town in this chilling novel for fans of Joe Hill.

It's 1972, and there are some new arrivals to the remote mining village of Parr's Landing . . .

The recently widowed Christina Parr and her brother-in-law, Jeremy, are the first to show up. Both fled town years ago because of the same woman--but for ultimately different, dark reasons. They weren't expecting a warm welcome upon their homecoming, but they had nowhere else to turn.

Meanwhile, Dr. Billy Lightning is searching for clues to prove the grisly death of his anthropologist father was not an accident. But the police aren't likely to be helpful to someone like him.

Then there's Richard Weal. With his long hair and cowboy hat, the disheveled man looks like a hippie. But the contents of his hockey bag will show he's anything but peaceful. He has cut a bloody path across the country to answer a powerful, supernatural call. In a cave near Bradley Lake, there slumbers a three-hundred-year-old horror that urgently wants to be released . . .

"Skillfully brings to mind the classic works of Stephen King and Robert McCammon." --Christopher Rice, New York Times-bestselling author of the Burning Girl series