When dicing with the devil, the wager is always blood! The Thornton Inn has a past; a bloody and violent past of murder and disappearances. Zach Harper knows that only too well. He also knows that the smell of blood and death fills the air again. And another victim has disappeared -- his wife's best friend. The police blame him. But the Inn itself is to blame. It will all come down to a game of chance -- and a bloody ending for someone.