I DEMAND BLOOD! Those were the last words the seventeen-year-old golden boy Clay Tate heard from his father, when he discovered him dying on the barn floor. Now, on the first anniversary of the tragedy in Midland, Oklahoma, the whole town watches Clay as if he’s cursed. The boy wants to return to a normal life, but the sons and daughters of the Society for the Preservation of the Old Things get in his way. He has to stop asking uncomfortable questions—though how do you do that if you suspect the locals are worshipping the unclean force? EVIL IS NEARBY, IT’S WATCHING HIM… MAYBE HE REALLY IS CURSED?