Vera is used to ignoring calls from strange numbers, after all, reporters looking for a scoop on her serial killer father have been ramping up their efforts as the twenty-year anniversary of his arrest approaches. But, she really shouldn't have picked up the phone this time, since now she'll have to do something she hasn't ever done: returned to the house her father built.
Her childhood home is a notorious burial ground but also the heart of Vera's warm memories of her then-idolized and beloved father. Now it is a living tomb for her long-estranged, dying mother.
It's hard enough for Vera to even be there, but to make things worse, someone (or something) is stalking Vera, leaving her creepy notes in her father's handwriting and painting fake blood all over the porch. And that's not the only unwelcome guest, a parasitical artist with delusions of granduer has moved into her mother's guest house, oozing charm and stinking of his own plans.
But there are more secrets in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House, and no one could have foreseen how this last confrontation would end....
