Willard Russell, a World War II veteran, tries to save his dying wife. Slowly losing his mind, he begins to think that only sacrificial blood spilled on a “prayer log” that he found in the forest near his house will save her. A married couple of serial killers are hunting hitchhikers on the roads, and a preacher who instills faith in his flock with the help of spiders is running from justice and his own conscience. And in the middle of such a nightmare, Erwin, Willard’s son, grows up, who really wants to grow up to be a good person, but the world does not allow him to do this. The destinies of the heroes will be intertwined into a single knot, and not everyone will be able to get out of it alive. The book contains obscene language