Miriam DuFour has been cheated on, tossed out of cooking school, and is about to lose her apartment. Her only saving grace is a small café she inherits in the small town of Achewillow. A place where strange and dangerous things live.
In the aftermath of a small-town massacre, Venus McKenzie and her friends each try to deal with the fallout in their own way, not knowing that they are being pulled in the same direction: towards the pulpit of the Church of the Sandmen.
