The award-winning author of Thunderland delivers a terrifying new novel about a town besieged by evil...and the one man who is determined to fight the darkness. When renowned author Richard Hunter dies in a boating accident, his son David travels to Mason's Corner, Mississippi, to find out more about the father he never really knew. At first, Mason's Corner seems friendly and unassuming--the perfect "small town." But after a newcomer moves into the old--and supposedly haunted--mansion on the hill, everything changes... People begin to disappear. Dogs viciously attack. And soon David discovers that the terror consuming this place has its roots in his own family tree... For something wicked has risen in Mason's Corner. Something with bloody ties to the town's past. Something undead--and hungering for vengeance...