Sleep, little children, all safe in your beds. But when the boogeyman knocks, if you are up watching... he'll make sure that you wish you were dead! Once every one hundred and fifty years he emerges from the darkest depths to feed. With each soul he takes, he grows stronger. There is but one gift he needs in order to gain the power he seeks. One gift that will allow him to walk amongst all the precious little children. And it's the one gift Mattie Hathaway possesses...the ability to bring images to life with just a drop of her blood. The demon Silas has warned her to never reveal this ability, not even to her father who shares her power to communicate with the dead. She's heeded his warning, but hiding it may no longer be an option. Children are disappearing all over the Charlotte area. When their bodies are recovered, they are always the same-broken, beaten, and bruised. Fear is spiraling out of control in the Queen City as parents glance nervously around each corner, seeing the boogeyman in every shadow. When one little girl goes missing in Mattie's neighborhood, it's up to her and Officer Dan Richards to find the truth. In doing so, she uncovers a far greater evil than she's ever come up against. The one thing she was bred to defeat. Deleriel. A fallen angel...one of the first demons. He is powerful, ambitious, and now that Mattie is on his radar, she's all he needs to complete his arsenal. Amid of whirlwind of secrets coming to light, Mattie is faced with uncovering the truth about her own heritage. She must come to grips with it before she can begin to prepare for the battle of a lifetime...a battle she never asked for but is caught in the middle of. Can she face her own truths before it's too late?