Some truths hide at the edges of the firelight, waiting for us to look too long into the dark. Ancient cults, black magic, and the Children of Old Leech have been with humanity since the beginning. They are patient. They are hungry.
Donald Miller, a geologist with a mind full of theories and a lifetime of blind spots, has spent nearly eighty years drifting between ordinary life and half-glimpsed nightmares. His wife Michelle and their grown twins appear ordinary, but secrets coil beneath the surface, waiting to be unearthed.
Now, Donald’s charmed absentmindedness can no longer shield him. He is about to stumble into a truth that will shatter everything he knows about family, faith, and survival. What waits in the shadows of The Croning?
