Daughters unto Devils

Sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner's family leaves their cramped mountain cabin for the open prairie, and Amanda hopes the move will give her a clean slate. She wants to put the last winter behind her: her frail mother struggling after the birth of a baby sister who never stops crying, and the frightening visions that crept in as her grip on reality loosened during the long months of cabin fever. Most of all, she wants to forget the boy she had been sneaking off to see as a way to escape her pain, the boy whose child she is now carrying.

The family's new home is a large cabin that its former owners abandoned, and its interior is smeared with blood. As the days go by, Amanda becomes certain that something is wrong on the prairie. She has heard tales of land poisoned by evil and of men who lost their minds and murdered their own families, and the doctor and his son who live in the woods at the prairie's edge seem strange to her. Weighed down by guilt and shame over her own mistakes, she cannot tell whether the darkness lies in the land around her or within her own soul.