Garret is a sixteen year old blacksmith living in a poor Appalachian town. The town is controlled by a local timber baron who wields his power like a king. The Appalachians are wild and dark in 1912, and it’s all Garret can do to put food on the table. But when the town physician is torn to pieces, Garret gets the blame, because no one wants to believe what really happened. Dr. Bentley was killed by something too large, too fast, and too vicious to be of this world. It kills his Pa right in front of him. It takes the only people he loves to use as leverage. Then it gives him an impossible choice: either the love of his life dies, or he does something for which she will never forgive him. When your demons have literal flesh and claws, you either face them… Or Die Trying.