'One of the most adroit masters of the supernatural thriller' (San Francisco Chronicle) delivers a chilling novel about a man seeking the truth about what happened on a horrifying night on a Midwestern campus in the 1960s. On a college campus, a charismatic guru and his young acolytes perform a secret ritual in a local meadow. What happens is a mystery - all that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body and the shattered souls of all who were present. Forty years later, one man seeks to learn more about that horrifying night, and to do so he'll have to force those involved to examine the unspeakable events that have haunted them ever since.