It's the winter of 1975, and Duane Minor, back home in Portland, Oregon, after a tour in Vietnam, is struggling to quell his anger, keep his drinking in check and keep his young marriage intact. Things get even more complicated when his 13-year-old niece, Julia, is sent across the country to live with her aunt Heidi and uncle Duane after a tragedy. Then Minor crosses the wrong man - John Varley, a vampire and criminal with a bloody history who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon. In an act of brutal retaliation, Varley kills Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia shot through with rage. United only by vengeance, the two follow his path of destruction from the gritty alleyways of Portland to the snow-lashed plains of North Dakota - only to have him turn his vicious power back on them. Who will prevail, who will survive, and what remains of our humanity when our thirst for revenge trumps everything else?
