Evil incarnate leaves a trail of destruction across the frontier Rachel Taylor lives a rather mundane existence in 1797 at the way station her family runs along the Wilderness Road in Tennessee. She attends her friend Sally Rice's wedding only to watch the marriage dissolve into horror as the groom, Wiley Harpe, and his cousin Micajah become murderers on the run, who drag their families along. Declaring a "war on all humanity," the Harpes won't be stopped, and Ben Langford is on their trail to see if his own cousin was one of their latest victims. How many will die before peace can return to the frontier?