[2] Abraham, or Abe as he prefers, is a widower who struggles to find peace after his wife's death.

Abe forms a friendship with his coworker Dan, who recently survived a terrible accident that left him a widower as well.

They are faced with the choice to help him and regain their lost loves or defy him and fight for survival.

Martin Cahill of Tor praised the novel saying "Langan's novel is deliberate, elegant, and beautifully written; the horror and trauma of these two men is explored to the bone, and in the end, knowing them so well only makes the horrors to come that much more terrifying".

[3] Terrence Rafferty of The New York Times remarked, "Langan writes elegant prose, and the novel's rolling, unpredictable flow has a distinctive rhythm, the rise and fall of its characters' real grief.