Hell of a Band

ROCK AND ROLL WILL NEVER DIE—BUT IT CAN KILL When Alastair Stone’s casual professor band is invited to open a show for an up-and-coming rock act on the cusp of national success, he can’t deny it’s a dream come true. That is, until the headliner’s lead guitarist gives a phenomenal performance on a Stratocaster practically bursting with arcane power—and then turns up dead in his dressing room with magical music notes drawn on his forehead and the guitar nowhere to be found. Spurred to investigate the murder, Stone begins to uncover the Strat’s bizarre history, tracing it back to a shocking tragedy over fifty years ago. But that’s not the end—not even close. The guitar is far older than Stone ever suspected, and as he faces deadly danger searching for its origin, he encounters the entity behind it—a chaotic being with vast power, whose motives are impossible to fully comprehend. To end the guitar’s trail of murder and mayhem, Stone and his friends will first need to find it—but that’s the