Journalist Joe Oakes makes a living exposing supernatural hoaxes. A born sceptic, he believes everything has a rational explanation. But when he visits a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish isl&, everything he thought he knew is overturned.
Questions mount: Why has the community been accused of Satanism? What has happened to their leader, Pastor Malachi Dove? & perhaps most important, why will no one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island?
Their confrontation, & its violent & bloody aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces Oaksey to question the nature of evil, & whether he might not be responsible for the terrible crime about to unfold.
In this compulsive & haunting novel, Mo Hayder dares her readers to face their fears head on & to think about the unspeakable things people can do to each other.