Nine curses. Nine weeks to live. Joel Hatcher has inherited more than a family legacy. Its a time bomb thats ticking down to the inevitable: his own death. But the curse wont die with him. Unless he can find a way to break the cycle, his younger brother becomes the next victim.\n\nIn the throes of the third curse, the Painful Pox, Joel makes a last-ditch decision to seek the help of a young spiritualist.\n\nOne look into Joels suffering eyes, and Madame Eugenie finds herself torn between doing the right thing and fulfilling her most secret wishbring her husband Adam back from the dead. Joels cursed blood is the missing ingredient in her resurrection rituals, and Adams spirit whispers seductively that theres only one way to get it: steal it.\n\nAs Gen and Joel unearth his familys past to track down a cure, they come closer to each other, and to a horrible truth. To live, Joel must lose everything. Up to and including the woman he has grown to love.
