Gospel gothic taking place in those holy rolling hills down there where God-fearing Mason Lawson doesn't know what to make of his firstborn son Ruben and you won't know what to make of his queer spells or running-wild activity in the north meadow, by Passerman's Hollow where a little girl lies, and worse, much worse, is to follow. Sort of a mumbojumble of bad seeds and Others and witchcraft and possession for a simple readership which probably won't lift up its eyes until it's all over.