Katy Logan was looking for a fresh start when she uprooted herself and her daughter Jett from the stresses of city life to settle in the Blue Ridge Mountain town of Solom. With a new marriage and a rural lifestyle to embrace, Katy is determined to make the most of this second chance, for her sake and Jett's. Yet things in Solom aren't as simple as they seem-starting with her husband, Gordon, and his strange, secretive family.
Jett understands her mother's reasons for dragging them out to the sticks-although it's harder to tolerate her new stepfather, with his weird stories of a blood-drinking scarecrow and a long-gone family member who may have been murdered. But Katy and Jett are about to learn that there's more to this place than even the legends tell. As Katy nurses a growing obsession with Gordon's first wife, Jett begins to sense something wrong-very wrong-permeating the farm. Something wicked has been growing there, awaiting its master. And with his arrival, a bloody harvest will begin….