In the shadowed town of Blackhollow, a curse has lingered for three centuries—marking certain families as the Damned, doomed to die before their thirtieth year. When twenty-two-year-old Elias Thorne survives the date of his foretold death, he becomes both a miracle and an anomaly. Hunted by a secret order sworn to maintain the curse, and haunted by visions of the town's buried past, Elias uncovers a terrible truth: the Damned are not cursed at all, but bound—payment for a bargain made long ago. To break free, he must confront the ancestor who damned them all.
