Levenford had seen it's share of horror, with the strange and bloody deaths in the old house in the centre of the town some thirty years before. Now a new round of deaths has shocked the town. And they are more brutal than anyone could have imagined. Levenford is at the mercy of a superhuman, remorseless killer, that, whatever it is, loves the dark places, the high places the old town offers. Evil has been given flesh and blood. And this evil demands more. . . The slaughter has turned the town into a pressure chamber of dread. Jack Fallon has no leads that will help him stop the carnage. But soon the bizarre visions of a young Highland woman begin to make some kind of weird sense. Only she can unlock Levenford's terrible secret. Only she can lead Fallon to the Shrike. . .