Just as their troubled marriage is reaching the breaking point, Ted and Janet Conway inherit the ancestral Conway home. Eager to make a new beginning, the Conways and their children head for the promise of a better life in the small Louisiana town of St. Albans.

But within the long-abandoned, sprawling Victorian house lies the long, dark history of the Conway name -- a grim bloodline poisoned by suicide, strange disappearances, voodoo rituals, and rumors of murder. The Conways know nothing of the soul-shattering secrets that snake through generations of their family's past... nor of the terror that awaits them ....

Once again, John Saul brilliantly proves himself the master of macabre suspense.