An ancient terror. Brooding in the dark. Waiting to come forth again. Brad Anderson is in a bad marriage. It has been a bad marriage since the beginning. He is invited to Romania. It is the land of his fathers but it is a land he has never been to. A celebration will take place, a celebration of great act of his ancestor. When he gets there, however, he finds something... A great evil. From the author of From the Dark, The Joining, Skyfallen, The Doom Bearers, and I Am Legion.