Peter and Gigi Winsted will never forget July 7, 1982. That night, a malevolent entity known as "The End" forced the quarantine of Crowe County Hospital's North Belfry. A brutal cleanse followed, killing the 237 people who were unable to evacuate in time. "The End" disappeared with them. By the fifteenth anniversary of North Belfry, Gigi and Peter are a nurse and paramedic for Crowe County Hospital. Their work ties them to controversial legends from the hospital's tragedy, practitioners who do their best to ignore the past, in a medical community hellbent on two things-surviving shifts and keeping patients alive. But as July 7 draws near, reminders of North Belfry's collapse are seen at every turn. The Winsteds and their coworkers grasp for sanity and hope in a week of lycanthropic anaphylaxis, ethereal violence, and hospital security failure until they can no longer ignore the inevitable. The past is coming for them. Whether they like it or not.