One Night in the House of the Creepy Santas

Doctor Joshua #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;Doc#xE2;#xAC;" Lavine may be the best neurosurgeon in Boston, but no one feels sorry for him when his penchant for recreational chemicals lands him in deep legal woes. But the news of his Great Aunt Sadie#xE2;#xAC;"s death trumps everything and renews old nightmares: of an absurd house that harbors a chilling revelation and court documents that were sealed when Doc was thirteen. As if the news of Sadie#xE2;#xAC;"s death is not enough to spirit him away and back to Eerie Cove, his grifter half-brother has reappeared, intent upon extorting Doc with a troubling secret.Bad gestates into worse when Special Agent Quinn Masterson, a criminal profiler for the FBI, tracks fourteen gruesome murders to the exhausted little town. Quinn has been stalking her killer for three years and now she thinks she has him cornered. She had better produce, though. Her boss in Quantico didn#xE2;#xAC;"t mince words: Quinn desperately needs a win on this one.When five troubled souls become trapped in Aunt Sadie#xE2;#xAC;"s house on Christmas Eve, the disturbing truth comes out: a clandestine organization linked to Nazi Germany; an ancient legend of the mysterious #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;Santa Claus#xE2;#xAC;" of Arctic Finland; pagan graveyard rituals performed in the still of night; and the sickening truth about Doc#xE2;#xAC;"s upbringing under Sadie#xE2;#xAC;"s gratuitous hand. As the clock strikes Midnight, a prophecy buried under centuries of folklore is unleashed, and the true killers will make themselves known.