One little girl. Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal one little half-blood girl, and everything changes. Aloysius's little brother Jerome goes missing with her--two inseparable kids whose friendship is damned from the beginning--as demons replace the newly dead. A priest with a tainted Bible. A brother with a taste for blood and demon flesh. A fool with a passion for the machinery of Hell. Only Aloysius and his brothers can see the transformation--and there's not a damned thing they can do about it. Then Jerome returns: he has found a way down into the demons' Hell, where they twist the little girl's tortured dreams into a paradise of their own, a place to escape the demons who, in turn, haunt them.