After a resounding mission failure, the disgraced Jeremy Wilborn is forced to return to his parents' home, a place called Britchendbarn, where he was born and raised. His father and mother remained there, as well as his childhood friend, with whom he had once been in love with all his soul. It would seem like a good chance to lie low and start all over again, with a clean slate. But what's eating Jeremy? Fragments of the past haunt him. Is a small town really so quiet and calm? Occult symbols on the walls, strange events... What if Jeremy has to learn a secret that can turn his life upside down, completely consuming him in its bottomless emptiness? And will he be able to hold on to those thin threads that still connect him with reality? Editor's comment: Sticky fog, terrible symbols, itchy anxiety that grows with every page. The plot of this book is punctuated by a gloomy atmosphere of lurking horror.