The first book in a darkly comic new series from a debut author John works in his familys mortuary & has an obsession with serial killers. He wants to be a good person but fears he is a sociopath & for years he has suppressed his dark side through a strict system of rules designed to mimic normal behavior. Then a demon begins stalking his small town & killing people one by one & John is forced to give in to his darker nature in order to save them. As he struggles to understand the demon & find a way to kill it his own mind begins to unravel until he fears he may never regain control. Faced with the reality that he is perhaps more monstrous than the monster he is fighting John must make a final stand against the horrors of both the demon & himself.