The prologue describes some blood ritual/sacrifice in a church. Then we move to New York and introduced to our main character Eve - an established artist but she is also the eternal victim. Very unhappy childhood, husband jealous of her fame etc. This husband has died in an accident and pregnant Eve decides to leave everything behind and go back to some "decaying" town where her dying aunt - who had literally made her childhood miserable, lives.
The town contains all the mandatory characters such novels contain - the mean-spirited biased old lady, the friendly doctor, a sheriff trying to uphold the law, a couple of spoilt brats, folks suspicious of outsiders etc. We also have the ingredients essential for making a horror novel - mysterious deaths, blood-thirsty preacher, a parapsychologist who of course falls for dear old Eve.
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