R.G. Johansen takes readers on a spellbinding journey of family drama and first love, combined with a one-hundred-year-old riddle of unsolved murders in the Appalachian foothills in North Carolina. In the year 1967, a highschooler named Jamie Thompson learns what it takes to stand up against evil while desperately trying to fit in with her peers, protect her little brother, and compensate for her addicted mother. Guided by the most unlikely mentor, she discovers her most unusual gift and ultimately unravels the frightening truth which is far more sinister than anyone could have imagined.