At two-thirty in the morning at the local hospital in the small town of Brewster, Rhode Island, Alice Alessio is given the surprise of her life. Coming back from a secret tryst with a doctor, she peeks in to check on the newborn baby she was supposed to be watching, and finds a huge, writhing red-and-yellow snake in the bassinet instead. So begins the series of strange and disturbing events that start to plague this community and confound the police. Woody Potter, the detective on the case, simply can't put it all together - what is the thread that ties a missing baby, a dead insurance investigator, and a local Wiccan sect together? Why do all roads seem to lead to the town yoga center?
