Roy Stevens steals from the dead—and this time, the dead respond.

An alcoholic gravedigger with no respect for the grave, Roy never expects his latest theft to awaken the Eternal Brotherhood: an ancient order of the undead who think, walk, and hide among the living. Bound by a long-buried curse and sustained by cranial fluid, they return only those marked by the Eternal Gene.

One of them is Vladimir, a Romanian thug murdered after betraying his mafia employers. He rises decayed and unmistakably dead, but with every kill he grows stronger… and more human. Guided by The Koschei, the legendary demon who shifts between man and beast, Vladimir begins a calculated campaign of vengeance.

As Pine Ridge and the surrounding towns descend into terror, Roy realizes the dead are not mindless—and they are no longer content to remain unseen.

What he unleashed cannot be buried.