A mysterious letter turns Private Eye Roland Longville’s world upside down. The letter hints that Samson Fain, a demonic serial murderer, is once again killing children—this time, in rural Maine. There’s just one Longville is certain that he watched Fain die a gruesome death in a Louisiana swamp, years before. Now he’s forced to consider that the death he witnessed might have been just another of the fiendish killer’s magic tricks. To stop Fain, Longville will need help…but he quickly discovers that those around him, even old friends, aren’t easy to convince that Fain is still alive. As Longville chases one slender clue after another, the body count swiftly rises. He will need to find Fain and stop him for good, and quickly, or the madman will very likely disappear again—this time, forever.