David Raver is hours away from leaving Ashford for a prestigious trauma program in Washington. All he has to do first is finish one last late-night pizza delivery.

Instead, he hears a scream beneath a stranger’s house.

David has always been drawn to the things other people fear. It is the one instinct he has never learned to control—and this time, it leads him through the wrong door and into the hands of a killer who doesn’t see him as just another victim.

Detective Mike Raver is already hunting a ritualistic murderer turning Ashford into a nightmare. Then the case becomes personal.

Now, a father is racing to find his son while David fights to survive a horror built on punishment, obedience, and the darkest parts of himself. Because if Mike doesn’t reach him in time, David won’t just die in that house.

He’ll become part of it.