A demon inhabits a child and love possesses evil men as this fast-paced mix of horror, thriller and crime explores a great truth: light cannot exist without dark, and sometimes they are the same.

Constable McFarlan has a problem-his town's on fire. A Kentucky mining community nestled in the hollows of the Appalachian Mountains, Shard, was the picture of Small Town America. But in 1989 The Fire changed everything. A mysterious accident set the coal seam ablaze and Shard began a slow death burn. The smolder spread beneath the streets, fiery sinkholes swallowed entire houses and the air turned sulfurous. Twenty years later, only Will Two-Bears McFarlan and a few eccentric hold-outs remain to walk Shard's cracked boulevards and fill its once proud Victorians. But they are not alone. The...