Blood writes the book Book 1 in the Deschembine trilogy Among the local hippies and squatters of Brattleboro Vermont Sally Wildfire is on the run hiding from her cruel relentless family She finds unexpected love with Rob a bristly young man freshly awoken to alien sensations and ancestral memories of a longforgotten realmsetting them both on a collision course with a brutal rite of passage as the Wildfire family leaves a trail of mangled corpses on the road to Brattleboro