THE PRODIGAL SON, Rudy Lockenverde, returns to his family home after spending four years in New York City. Obsessed with the technology that haunts the modern world, he fiddles with his radio and awkwardly tries to reintegrate back into a household in which all activity is watched by a painting of the Virgin Mary…

And something else lurking in the woods. A shadow leaving prints of eyes in the mud. An entity that peers in through the kitchen window and spies on their lives. A pervert, perhaps? A predator? A monster. The woods hide many beasts, and the most dangerous of all just might be those which collide in the Lockenverde household;

Redford, a thing that has taken up residence with the family, which brings back dead rabbits and converses with the stars. Salavar, a forest creature trapped in the currents of Rudy’s radio, gifted—or cursed—with prophecies of the end times, winning lottery tickets, and deep, ugly family secrets. A mother alone, a missing father, and a son who is a stranger to his own home.

Rudy’s return harkens the clash of forbidden knowledge and things best left buried, the intricate wires of machinery and the wild cascading forests outside, unnatural love and the taste of blood. A storm brews in the distance. The foundations of the house will shake to their core.