Jane wants to change the world with old-fashioned, hard-hitting journalism, but instead she's covering the Founder's Day Bake Sale for her hometown newspaper, The Baileyville Times. She has a way out: a plane ticket to New York City. But on the morning of Halloween, a young couple goes missing, and Jane sets off on an investigation that will draw her closer to her hometown -- and its secrets -- than she could have ever imagined.

A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.