Cancer Eats the Heart

Welcome to Dark Rivers, a rustic northern town forgotten by most and beloved by few.

At its heart is Cannibal House, a crumbling Victorian mansion lorded over by Old Wick, a mysterious wanderer whose arrival in Dark Rivers signals a change-a strangeness that seeps into the bloodstream of the town.

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren't the strangest things she's ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adolescent girl ...