On a cursed Cherokee mountainside, young Ozzie and his family are held captive in decrepit shacks as they await an unspeakable deadly fate. Blake Savage, a disgruntled former football star, is desperate to claim the wealth and fame he lost, but his mystical wife, Angelica, longs for a simple life that honors her Cherokee tradition.

When an egocentric restaurateur offers Blake a fortune to turn Ozzie's family into a delicacy for his network of supper clubs, Blake can't resist the temptation. But Ozzie may be more than he seems and will do anything to survive. When dinner is served and the foodies take their first bites of the illicit feast, an ancient disease resurfaces, unleashing a trail of black death that threatens to consume humanity.

This shockingly real and thrilling novel weaves a rich Appalachian tapestry as it races toward its cataclysmic conclusion.