From the mind of best-selling author Jim Butcher, an ALL-NEW, COMPLETELYORIGINAL Dresden Files story that pits Chicago's mystical detective againstbloodthirsty rural monsters. Harry Dresden, a Chicago private investigatorand wizard, heads to a small, isolated Missouri town terrorized by Nevernevermonsters. The singularly unfortunate Talbot family has suffered a curse that hasdecimated their number for generations, and only our hero can save them... thatis, if he can survive hostile lawmen, the dark secrets of townsfolk, an ancientguardian spirit, and two deadly carnivores! Can Dresden cleanse the Talbotbloodline of its curse without a blood sacrifice of his own?