A string of kidnappings plagues Butcher's Bend. When mysterious statues that resemble missing children turn up at a warehouse once used by a gorgon sculptor to store art and supplies, federal agents grow suspicious.

Lines of an unknown poem and the growing presence of pain and death link this case to two sets of unsolved crimes in Butcher's Bend's history, Sam and Destiny must confront the city's dark past if they hope to aid their client in proving her partner's innocence.

As the mystery deepens and a darkness rises, will Sam find the perpetrator before too many young lives suffer, or will death and sorrow follow in the darkness' wake because it hungers?