So you’ve inadvertently trapped an ancient trans-dimensional god in your backyard shed; what do you do? That’s what Venus McKenzy and her friends would like to know.

Ten-year-old Johnny Olmstead’s only hopes of escaping a hideous monster are his mother who is on the brink of a mental breakdown, his father who died five years ago, and a stranger in his attic who doesn’t know who he is.

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.