Leeds Point, Colony of New Jersey, 1735 : In a farmhouse on a lonely shore, a monstrosity is born. Cursed by its mother, this creature of unimaginable horror wreaks havoc upon the desperate colonists, but this curse is only the harbinger of calamity and misfortune for the entire family, particularly for the monster's 14-year-old sister, Bath. Compelled to make an odyssey through the wilderness of colonial America, Bath discovers the true nature of the world she inhabits, a world filled with wonders and injustice, loyalty and dark family secrets, and friends and foes alike, and culminating in a final encounter with her monstrous brother from which she may not survive. Wrapped in local legends and folklore, Devil is a hero's journey of one young woman's quest to discover herself and the world about her, and put to right what has horribly gone wrong.