Legends of the Family Dyer

The legend of Moll Dyer originated in earliest colonial Maryland. Despite 300 years of civilization, and the advent of scientific reason, Moll's name is still often heard there, especially around campfires late at night, or as a warning to misbehaving little people. Her spirit is often seen as a wisp of unnatural fog in the swampy woodlands near her homestead, with her half-wolf companion at her side. This is her story.

Defeated by Moll Dyer a century before, the demons, Laris and Ladonna, return to claim their due: a Dyer child's soul. John, skin-walker and great-great-grandson of the venerable Moll Dyer, is on a quest for a place where his past sins (and his family name) are unknown. He finds a new life homesteading on Devil's Peak, Virginia, and discovers his true love there. Ada Hartman is the preacher's daughter, but can she be trusted with his secret...and with the horrors of his past? Against all odds, they're drawn into a final confrontation.

Two cousins, Garren hailing from the mountains of West Virginia, and Brodie from the flatlands of Southern Maryland, reunite the Dyer family at a hunting camp in the Potomac Highlands; the dark entity Laris doesn't care where they came from, because he knows them as the descendants of Moll Dyer, his old enemy. Three of the cousins' friends oppose the ancient evil: Anna, a hesitant Native American spiritualist, Lenore, a teenager just discovering her shape-shifting abilities, and Bridget, a teenage girl with too much to lose...and plenty to gain.