From #1 NY Situations bestselling award winning author Robert McCammon, a book that Publishers Weekly calls “both a mystery which will satisfy the most finicky aficionado and a boisterous travelogue.”

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson-a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. After that, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness an automobile plunge right into a lake-and a eager rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with an awful vision of death that may haunt him permanently.

As Cory problems to understand his father’s discomfort, his eye are slowly opened towards the forces of great and bad that are manifested in Zephyr. From an ancient, mystical woman who are able to hear the dead and bewitch the living, to a violent clan of moonshiners, Cory must confront the secrets that hide in the shadows of his hometown-for his father’s sanity and his personal life hang in the balance.