Denver Beck knows his dark past must remain hidden if he ever hopes to become a master demon trapper. All that is in jeopardy when he returns home to face his dying mother. Despite her sadistic cruelty, Sadie Beck holds the greatest secret of all—the name of his father.

But rural Georgia is much more than small towns, cottonfields and primordial swamps. Even with fellow trapper Riley Blackthorne watching his back, old enemies are eager to settle scores.

His day of reckoning has come. Either Beck fights for his future, or his past will destroy him.