An ancient deadly hatred. A new, deadlier love. A journey of brutal self-discovery and otherworldly secrets that threaton existance and sanity as we know it.
In the bars and rundown parking lots of Brattleboro, Vermont, the ramblers and the romantics and the delinquents gather, looking for meaning and solace in music, caffeine, alcohol, and the desperate hungry embrace of each other. Among them are Janie, a teenage American-Indian girl trying to reconcile her mother’s strange clairvoyant teachings with the mundane world she struggles to find her place in; Sally, on the run from her fanatical otherworldly family; and Rob, a bristly young former drifter, struggling to readjust to “civilized” life, newly awoken to a bloody superhuman heritage spanning worlds and ages.
Others have entered this sleeping, poisoned small-town world: Jesse, who holds the secrets of Rob’s legacy; Sheldon, Sally’s younger brother whose quest for vengeance and understanding will forever entangle the destinies of Janie and her mother into an ancient struggle; and Puttergong, Rob’s mad, monstrous Familiar with an agenda of its own…
As Puttergong pits Rob and Sheldon on a collision course, Jesse and Sally must form an uneasy alliance, to save Rob from himself... and to potentially save much more from something untellably powerful, an ancient being from a forgotten world, rising towards consciousness with him.