The serialized Kindle Vella story, now collected as a full-length novel. Best-selling author Ray Farmer has a drinking problem.

This becomes painfully obvious when he starts his night in his Manhattan apartment and wakes up the next morning in a ditch on the side of the road in the small Indiana town he once called home. He thinks of her.

Jolene was his childhood friend and high school sweetheart. He left her behind to chase his dreams, but he knows she still farms the land right down the road.

Can he convince her to forgive him?Ray has another problem. He's afraid of the dark and for good reason.

The creatures who live there have tormented him throughout most of his life. And his mother before him.

They were inspirations for his successful novel series, but he's never tried to understand them. Now, as he rekindles old relationships, he embarks on a quest to find out what the monsters are and why only he can see them when darkness falls.

Enter Adrian Dillard, a supernatural investigator with incredible gifts. Determined to find the answers Ray seeks, Adrian searches for evidence of a curse that may date back further than either of them could imagine.

A curse that all starts with a crow. .