On a lonely moor in the northeast of England, the body of a young woman is discovered near the site of a vanished church. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull. Each is a summons and something in the shadows has heard the call. But Parker is cominh: the hunter, the avenger. Parker fears no evil. But evil fears him. The 17th novel in the bestselling Charlie Parker series.