Tim Gaines was the town pariah. Mocked and teased continuously since he was in the sixth grade, he approaches his senior year of high school with a sense of cautious trepidation. Years before, when he was in the sixth grade, a group of boys led by Scott Bradfieldża popular, well-liked kid from well-to-do parentsżspread a vicious rumor that he was a devil-worshipper. The rumor stuck, and is believed by most of the students and even a few of the teachers and administrators. Itżs a rumor Tim canżt beat, and one he sometimes feels heżs brought on to himself due to his love of horror novels and movies.Now Tim has become friends with a loose-knit group of kids who have also become social outcasts thanks to other rumors spread about them by the student elite. With their mutual support, Tim has begun to come out of his shell. Heżs going out with them, being invited to parties, and even begins to have a romantic interest in a girl, something he never thought would happen to him in high school.But all that will change when Scott Bradfield and his friends set their sights on Tim again. Only this time, they need his help. Like most of the student body of Spring Valley High School, they sincerely believe Tim Gaines is a devil-worshipper. And they believe he has a dark power. Now they want to use him and that power for their own sinister plightżżTo bring back the dead homeless man theyżd kidnapped and brutally beaten to a pulp in the guesthouse that resides on the Bradfield residence.They want him brought back not because theyżre scared of getting caught for his murder, but so they can savagely beat and murder him againżżand againż