Chance Silvey grew up in her grandparents’ house on the side of Red Mountain, high above the urban sprawl of Birmingham, Alabama. Now married, with a baby on the way, she wants to move on and leave the house—and the tragic history of her family—in the past.
 
But her future is already tainted. Chance is hallucinating, seeing blood everywhere, and is afraid to uncover what it means. Her husband, Deacon, a gifted psychic, fears being drawn into a police investigation after having a vision of a serial killer’s brutality. And it all leads to a woman with a thirst for violence, hiding from something that haunts her day and night.
 
Something even more terrible than herself… “A gift for language that borders on the scary.” —Neil Gaiman

“Caitlín R. Kiernan draws her strength from the most honorable of sources, a passion for the act of writing.”—Peter Straub

“Fast paced, emotionally wrenching, and thoroughly captivating.”—Locus
 
“Fully unleashes the hounds of horror, and the read is eerie and breathtaking.”—Irish Literary Review 
 
“Effective evocations of the supernatural…a memorable expansion of the author’s unique fictional universe.”—Publishers Weekly