A fourteen-year-old boy has been found hanged and mutilated in the basement of Satan House. It's the second life the derelict mansion has claimed. The work of a brutal predator? A curse? Or a ritual cult murder? The boy's death shocks parents in the Alberta city of Lethbridge, and police chief Eddy "Butch" Bochansky knows there will be reprisals. Trying to ward off panic, he persuades his old high school buddy, Billy Yamamoto, to act as a deputy detective...