David Thorne is a master of silence. With forty-seven victims to his name, he thought he knew everything about the darkness. He thought the "urge" to kill was his own. He was wrong. When his seven-year-old daughter, Lily, begins to manifest the same cold, calculated violence, David realizes the terrifying truth: He wasn't a predator. He was a host. An ancient cosmic entity known as The Archon has been living in his bloodline, and now, it wants a new vessel. As a wave of "logical suicides" sweeps the city and the sky begins to weep red, David must face a choice that would break any man: To save the world, he must destroy the thing he loves most. But how do you kill a god when every drop of blood you spill only makes it stronger?