When Zoe Sides smells roses, someone is about to die.
Winter snows are setting in, and everyone in town is beginning to smell of roses. Before the snow thaws, Zoe and her band of survivors will face an evil that has fed on humans for millennia, wearing the husks of the dead like masks to move among us.
The possessed priest - kicked out of the church for the death of a parishioner, Father Ted is little more than the town drunk now. But he drinks to keep the voice trapped in his head quiet.
Beverly, the elderly librarian - having lost her son years ago, she's swept up by events when Father Ted shows up on her doorstep begging for help.
Will they be able to survive the coming winter? Or will they be picked off one by one to feed the entity that calls itself the Throng?