Underneath the town of Gentry lies something evil. Something spoken of in whispers, if spoken of at all. It calls itself Mayhem, and it's citizens are a nightmarish collection of beings, some of whom can pass as human if you don't look too closely.
Mackie Doyle lives in Gentry with a loving family - but Mackie is not what he appears to be. He is from Mayhem, traded as an infant into a human family so Mayhem could take the human baby as a sacrifice. Now at 16, Mayhem wants Mackie back. He is getting sick (Mayhem says dying) because the human environment is slowly poisoning him. Then another baby is taken, and the baby's sister, Tate, turns to Mackie for answers. Relations between Gentry and Mayhem are strained and tense as Mackie finds himself drawn against his will into the eerie world of Mayhem to find answers both he and Tate need.
The book is dark, the imagery straight out of nightmares, but Mackie is such a compelling, strange, and sweet hero that I stayed up half the night reading because I couldn't put this down. This is imaginative and creepy at the same time - not for every reader.
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