Erin Shepherd runs away from home, certain she's escaped the worst kind of monster.
Despite her homelessness, she believes the pain and torment is behind her when a kind stranger offers her food, safety, and a ride out of town.
She is wrong.
Now a prisoner, her life unravels into a waking nightmare of captivity, cruelty, and whispered promises of something waiting beyond pain.
Surrounded by horrifying atrocities and dark mystery, Erin begins to wonder if she is running from her fate or becoming it.