This is an excellent novel about an occult ritual that goes very wrong. It also features a story of family, love, and grief.

A man loses his uncle, who had raised him and cared for him ever since he was a child. In a moment of grief and reflection he decides to try a ritual to bring his uncle back just so they could have some final words. When he was a teenager, he and his girlfriend at the time performed this ritual trying to bring back her brother.

But this ritual works, perhaps too well, and what follows is absolutely horrifying. His uncle returns, sort of, but he is being tortured and begging to be released. Something is eating him and his pain and suffering is never ending.

Our protagonist has a wife and baby on the way and as this thing tormenting his uncle turns it's eyes on him and his family, nobody will be safe.

The thing that's been released seems to be bound to him by the blood he spilled during this ritual and it can't be stopped. There's no counter ritual or spell to undo what's been done. And when his unborn child begins showing bizarre symptoms, the situation escalates to terrifying levels of horror and dread.

This novel goes to some really dark places and the author doesn't hold back in showing just how evil this thing is. Nobody and nothing is safe, including children and pets, as any attempt to hinder it's progress is met with blood and pain.

This is one of those books that just goes full speed ahead and creates an atmosphere of horrific dread along the way. With great characters, lots of action, blood, and supernatural scares, I highly recommend this book.