Rey Dolor

Arthur Oakes is an avid reader and idealistic student at Rackham College in Maine, famous for its frigid winters and extraordinary library. His life is perfect... until someone coerces him into stealing something valuable from the college library. Desperate, Arthur enlists the help of his five best friends, and together they devise a wild and fantastical plan: to use Crane's haunting journal (bound in its author's leather) to summon an impossible creature. Years later, their pact to save Arthur has become a terrifying memory. And in exchange for their safety, the six must choose an annual sacrifice for the creature...