Every small town has a special place like the mound. Lovers go there to woo, families picnic in summer, children sled in winter. For the community of Osceola, the mound has never been dangerous -until now.
Now something beyond cunning or imagining, something that appears undeniably evil is hiding beneath the mound. The terror comes from out of time, space and the depths of the human mind with its alien needs and desires. It spreads its roots in secret - changing, transforming, reshaping reality. It seeks to sweep aside all that the good townsfolk love and cherish: their past, 5eir hopes, the promise of their souls. It fills the innocent earth with its presence. It screams with power.
How can ordinary people protect themselves from this evil? How can they fight its weapon of soul-breaking potency - a sweetly seductive yet unspeakably savage pleasure too intense to resist? Brian Kelly, a courageous physicist still greiving over the hideous death of his first wife and child, suspects that the shell of reality must have been torn to let in this monstrosity. He must discover a way to repair the rift. ...........
