i. home

Magnolia Earnest has known evil. She thought she had escaped it when she moved to live with her grandfather in his rural hometown. Little did she know that the town of Veda, Texas had its own evil, as inescapable as the buzz of cicadas in the dripping heat of a moonlit summer.

And at the root of that evil is a smiling boy with a chipped tooth and a habit for transforming into a terrifying creature.