A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all.

The unsettling darkness of Joe Hill meets the cryptic mystery ofThe X-Files.Delilah S. Dawson,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Violence

When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the clients refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: dark-op government agents who have been hunting for the hand are on Hutch’s tail, more and more of the city’s residents fall under its brutal, devastating influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster

But its all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husbandsuicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackledwithinthe confines of her apartment. Her son, Nick, has moved home to care for her,quietly making his living working for Hutchs boss.

When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the hand, Katherine and Nick are looped into a global struggle that will decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life theyve built. Mother and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful government agents, while exorcising family secrets that have risen from the deadsecrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to humanity’s survival.