When Jake, a shy fourth grader, starts a fire in the woods behind his school that gets away from him, he's punished and forgiven. But his life is never the same. Three years after the incident, the dreams begin. Dreams of flames and a strange creature Jake calls The Melting Man, beckoning him into an otherworld filled with his darkest fears. THE NEW FLESH is the story of one family's descent into madness. Brutal and breathtaking, Deininger's graphic and violent debut is one you will not soon forget. A new nightmare...a new terror...The New Flesh...