Publisher's blurb: Deep in this forested town lies a workshop, its walls so thick few sounds can escape. Blood stains its floors and cells littered with soiled straw wait, empty. Cadavers are arrayed on workbenches before a glowing, red machine. Two hidden exits lead outside, one through an old basement that is now being used for wine storage and another through a small home above. Stores with lichen covered walls sell goods, mingling with homes and consultancies.