SIX DEAD. TWO INSANE. ONE HALF-BURIED. Talkeetna will be a fresh start for Jim Dougley, his high school sweetheart, Leah, and their son, Peter. With Jim's new promotion on the horizon, maybe it's finally time to leave the past behind. But when a freak accident takes Peter's life, Jim is left to pick up the pieces of his broken family while Leah finds herself in a suffocating depression. How does she choose between Life and Death when both sides cradle someone she loves? A year later, Jim finds himself sharing a drink with his brother, Nathan. It's been twenty-two years since they last spoke, and things are finally good—for once, it's easy to laugh. But the past has grown bolder. Talking, now. Taking shape. It is unwilling to die, hiding something beneath its surface. Something hungry for freedom. A storm is rolling in, and the Vale is cracking. Jim, Leah, and Nathan will have to rise above their trauma and Where Evil prevails, Good must follow...