When sixteen-year-old Mark Seward inherits a house in Moriah, Iowa, he thinks his troubles are behind him. His parents are gone. His aunt is finally out of his life. The court has signed off on his independence. All he needs is a quiet senior year in a small town where nobody knows him.
Moriah has other plans.
His uncle's "suicide" doesn't add up. The pastor kicks him out of church. The sheriff watches him like a suspect. The girl next door is forbidden from speaking to him. And in the basement of the house he now owns, a rust-colored stain on the concrete tells a different story than the one the town has settled on.
Then the bodies start.
To stop what is coming, Mark will have to read what his uncle could not finish, see what the town refuses to see, and stand against everyone who has spent the year telling him exactly who he is.
He is not who they think he is.
He is not even who he thinks he is.
And what is buried in Moriah has been waiting for him.