"Assured, gritty, expertly paced, and sleek as a bullet, Burge's eerie and intense tale of grizzled detectives frantically searching for a ritual killer who may be far more than he seems is not to be missed. I could not put it down!" -Greg F. Gifune, Bestselling Author of THE BLEEDING SEASON, SAVAGES, and MIDNIGHT SOLITAIRE

A whirlwind of tragic, terrifying events...

A vodoun priest is brutally slain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

On American soil, a man stands atop his car-naked from the waist down-and suddenly succumbs to a mysterious death.

Within the silence of a state park, an abducted child is found dead; yet another in a series of similar slayings.

In the small city of New Warfield, ODs have skyrocketed from the use of cocaine tainted with an undetermined substance.

Detective Ezekiel Marrs may just have the wealth of strength and skills needed to fight these dark forces, to uncover the facts behind these hideous cases and how they relate to one another. With his team, Ezekiel takes on the immense task of putting the pieces together...making the connections that will hopefully solve this puzzle and stop the seemingly endless death and destruction.

But when Ezekiel and his fellow police officers find themselves facing two of the most vicious adversaries they've ever encountered, more lives hang in the balance as they battle to survive a deadly, inevitable confrontation with unimaginable evil.