An ancient evil has come to Hastings Mills, and only one man can stop it. Where The Stranger goes, evil follows. Women throw themselves off bridges. Townspeople turn on each other in murderous fury. Swimmers disappear in the river, victims of a deadly beast that has taken up residence there. And the worst is still yet to come. The Stranger plans on opening a gateway to the nether realms and releasing the Elder Gods to bring forth Chaos on Earth. Only one man knows the truth, a country mage whose family has fought The Stranger before. But can he defeat his ageless enemy before Hastings Mills is nothing but a devastated, smoking ruin and the townspeople become unwilling blood sacrifices to the Old Ones? With only the help of a young woman and her teenage brother, he will have to use all his arcane knowledge to thwart his adversary and prevent the final apocalypse from becoming a reality. In Hastings Mills, The Burning Time has arrived.