Frank Train was born restless, the grandson of cowboys and tumbleweeds, the kind of guy who got into fights because he was bored and got drunk because he was awake. Family settled him down, but now, in the space of a few months, Frank's lost his parents, his wife, and two of his children in a series of bizarre tragedies, each of which is marked with the same strange symbol. The only survivors are his son Ricky and his prodigal brother, each of whom battles the same kind of demons Frank has carried with him all his life. That symbol though, Frank's seen it before. On Halloween night, the scarecrow at the crossroads came to life and offered him a deal, and that was what started it all. Now time's running out as Ricky becomes stranger and stranger and Frank struggles to discover just what the scarecrow took from him -- and what he has coming in return.