A fourteen-year-old boy has been found hanged and mutilated in the basement of Satan House. It s the second life the derelict mansion has claimed. The work of a brutal predator? A curse? Or a ritual cult murder? The boy s death shocks parents in the Alberta city of Lethbridge, and police chief Eddy Butch Bochansky knows there will be reprisals. Trying to ward off panic, he persuades his old high school buddy, Billy Yamamoto, to act as a deputy detective and hunt down the killer. Recently returned to the plains, Billy s just buried his own father and taken over a ranch in
