A little girl possessed. A small town engulfed in dread and horror. A dark house at the edge of a frozen lake. What secret lies within the place known as the Goat Dance? New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg blends supernatural suspense with heart-pounding horror in this dark epic novel. "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby."- Dean Koontz, #1 New York Times bestselling author.A young man - Malcolm "Cup" Coffey - returns to Pontefract, Virginia, to find the girl he once loved. A town must face its terrifying past as a possessed child threatens to unleash an unspeakable horror upon them all and a dark house at the edge of a frozen lake remains locked and abandoned...For fans of Guillermo del Toro, Stephen King, and Dean Koontz."Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!" - Robert R. McCammon, New York Times bestselling author."Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows just how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." - Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author.