Slaughterhouses often use trained goats to gain the trust of sheep and cattle doomed to die. Once trust is established, the goat leads them to the slaughter while his own life is spared. This traitor is known as the Judas Goat. It has been twenty years since Lenny Cates has seen or heard from his former college sweetheart Sheena. They had a short and tempestuous relationship that ended badly, so when Lenny is notified that Sheena has died in an accident and left him her entire fortune, he feels compelled to investigate the final days leading up to her untimely death. When Lenny arrives in town to take over his inheritance, he begins to delve deeper into Sheena's life and learns that her last days were clouded by the shadows of loneliness, depression and experiments with black magic. Lenny will soon discover that Sheena's death has awakened something as insatiably demonic and ancient as humanity itself, something that lurks and grows stronger in a quiet small town where the horrors of the past never truly die, the pain is eternal and nothing is right. as it seems. Take a closer look... sometimes evil hides in plain sight.