The Calamities

Rival demon families control the world's wealth and power in this contemporary dark fantasy, an atmospheric and macabre epic that melds arcane magic with enthralling family drama, from New York Times bestselling author of The Wanderers.Fiends walk among us.Half-human, half-demon, each belonging to a diabolical bloodline going back millennia. They have embedded themselves in human society and control untold wealth, influence, and prestige.That power does not come freely: It comes from buying human souls. And the great demonic families have long been embroiled in a cold war that could engulf the world if it ever turned bloody.But that delicate balance is challenged when the fiends begin having dreams of a mysterious church in the American midwest: The families send five emissaries???their outsiders, their misfits, their black sheep???to investigate the structure.Because it may harbor a power even darker and greater than that of the fiends. And the visions may turn out to be prophecies of war.