Redwater Crossing was already dying when a glowing used-car lot appears overnight on the edge of town. The vehicles are flawless. The prices are impossible. And the man behind it all, Earl Maddox, promises hope to a community crushed by foreclosure, unemployment, and quiet despair. Families drive away in dreams they could never afford--and for the first time in years, the town feels alive again. But as payments rise, suicides increase, and neighbors begin to unravel, Sheriff Mason Brody realizes something far worse than fraud is at work. Whispers spread of a tall figure watching from the shadows, tied to something ancient and hungry. Because the cars aren't the product.

The town is. And Redwater Crossing is about to learn what kind of harvest grows best on blacktop.