Thomas Knoppke has it made. His wife, a successful lawyer, is crazy about him. His twin daughters are vivacious beauties doing well in school and his Central Florida real-estate development business brings in more work then he and his partner can handle. Everything would be perfect—if only his heart wasn’t trying to kill him.

His doctor wants to operate, but ever since Thomas lost his father on the operating table at the age of twelve, he won’t go within a country-mile of a hospital.

After visiting an antiquated pharmacy recommended by his friend, things start looking up. His illness miraculously vanishes, and he feels twenty-years younger. But when the dangerous symptoms come crashing back later that night, Thomas feels he has no choice but to follow directions from the mysterious proprietor of the pharmacy to a hidden South Florida town where far more sinister things than a cure to his condition slither in the dark, seeking payback for something a child took from them long ago.