Something's going on in sleepy little sugarcane town of Hickory. A disturbing light shining down by the river. Two nasty road accidents, one after the other. Then Jake Sander's mother is found dead on her living room floor, her face a mask of unspeakable terror.
And no one's seen young Ainslie McGregor since he went off on a dare to meet his best friend in the local graveyard.
Slowly, inexorably, communication with the outside world breaks down, and Hickory becomes A Place of Fear.
