A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them all. Rosson's novel plays out like a nightmare one that's nearly impossible to put down. The unsettling darkness of Joe Hill meets the cryptic mystery of The X-Files. Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of The Violence When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client's refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness- Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion- Dark-op government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on Hutch's tail, more of the city's residents fall under its brutal influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of disaster. . . . But it's all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her estranged husband suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment.