When Kurt meets Cassie it is love at first sight, but at nearly that same moment a killer who breaks bones like toothpicks and tears flesh with fangs begins ravaging the community. While many ascribe the carnage to a decades-old legend called "The Coogan Curse," Kurt digs for clues, separating fact from fiction, truth from superstition, madness from motive. Then Cassie's sister is killed. Cassie and her toddler are now clearly in the demon's crosshairs. To protect them, and despite putting his own life in jeopardy, Kurt scours the town's underbelly and corridors of power, knowing that great evil lies in wait thereand that it is human.