In a frozen Arctic wasteland, an ancient legend lies dormant under three thousand years of snow and ice, while half a world away a Christmas Eve Nor¿easter pummels Eerie Cove, Massachusetts.
Doctor Joshua `Doc¿ Lavine may be the best neurosurgeon in Boston, but he faces a career-ending lawsuit and the Boston District Attorney is poised to file criminal charges. No one feels sorry for Doc because his surgical skills are rivaled by his misanthropy, and while the news of his Aunt Sadie¿s death should be a welcome diversion from his legal woes, it reopens deep wounds: memories of ancient rituals and the court documents that were sealed when Doc was thirteen.
A fresh body has been found inside the house bequeathed to Doc, and when Special Agent Quinn Masterson tracks fourteen gruesome murders to the exhausted little town of Eerie Cove, Doc knows his time is running out. Terrified by the thought of returning to that house, Doc knows he¿s out of choices and when five troubled souls are trapped on Christmas Eve, the unsettling truth will be revealed: a clandestine organization linked to Nazi Germany; an ancient legend frozen in time; pagan graveyard rituals performed in the still of night; and the truth about Doc¿s troubled upbringing.