During a renovation project Jake Caruso and his construction crew uncover a hidden tunnel in the cellar of the old Blake family mansion. Exploring its depths, he finds an even greater mystery: a stone chamber that's been covered up for hundreds of years -- sealed shut by some long-forgotten warden.
When the ancient seal on the chamber is broken, a reign of terror and death consumes the town's residents. Something is stalking them -- something that strikes in the darkness without warning or mercy, leaving a trail of innocent blood in its wake -- and Jake comes to recognize the nightmarish truth about what he has set free. It is an evil born of ages past. A creature of eternal bloodlust. And it has risen to continue its endless slaughter....
NOMINATED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HORROR GUILD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL FOR 2001
NOMINATED FOR THE 2001 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL
"A modern gothic thriller...scary...remarkable." - Denver Rocky Mountain News
"Nasty, vicious, and perhaps most insidious of all - seductive." - Midwest Book Review
Keywords: gargoyle, dark fantasy, supernatural horror
