When a plague of death washes over the small town of Cassville, Missouri, can an outsider fix it all? Charley and Jacob, a teenage outcast and a grade-A jock, must get to the bottom of the series of deaths. It all started with a school fire, but now, there's so much more.
"When they arrived to the front entrance, the doors were blocked by a tall, slender figure dressed in all black, and wearing a bright yellow ski mask, rolled up to exhibit a devilish grin. His eyes seared into the weary children's souls, deep as the Marina Trench, and glinting red in the firelight. His teeth glistened in the light, showing off just how jaggedly sharp they were. How dangerous they could be.
Charley shivered in terror, and screamed out of pure, unadulterated fear. From him, she could swear, there came a low, terrifying roar, incapable of description with mere words. Flames filled the room."