Douglas Steele is running away from a secure and peaceful past. The last thing he expects to see in front of his car is a naked sixteen year old girl, fleeing from all the horrors of Hell at the height of a storm, the mark of the Devil on her shoulder. From the moment he kills her he is inextricably enmeshed in the shocking life of a village that has sold out to the Dark Forces, where his mortal life and his very soul hang in the balance, and he and his new love are forced to try to defend themselves through an entire night of otherworldly terrors unleashed against them, which ends, despite his best endeavors, with the entire house and garden plastered with gore and body parts.