

It is set in Ireland around 1600 years ago. The protagonist of the book is the central character Bec.

It is the fourth book of the series released but it is the first chronologically. In the centre of the web, Lush Lord Loss is all that's left.Bec is a book by Darren Shan in The Demonata series. In the centre of the web, vile Lord Loss torments the dead In the centre of the web, lowly Lord Loss bows his head Lord Loss sows all the sorrows of the world Luckily for now it was only a prank, and his uncle returns as normal

Grubbs takes care of his soulless uncle for a long time until one day he returns and plays a prank on him, by making him belief he turned into a werewolf himself. However there is one final part to the deal, one of them has to go into Lord Loss’s realm and do battle with him, while their body stays behinds as a zombie. He starts playing disinterestedly and recklessly and becomes increasingly indifferent and using this strategy he beats Lord Loss who cures Bill-E. He learns that the way to defeat Lord Loss is to deny him sustenance for Lord Loss feeds on grieve, fear and anxiety. They convince Lord Loss to allow them to switch places and now Dervish has to fight the demons and Grubbs who isn’t all that great at chess must play Lord Loss, after losing two games. Dervish plays Chess while Grubbs fights the demons, then as he is about to lose Dervish abandons the game and saves him. The two player and the one they intended to cure, which is what happened to Grubs parents and sister. One will play chess on five different boards at the same time against Lord Loss while the other fights two of his familiars, if one of the two loses all three will be killed. Dervish explains everything and they decide to do battle with Lord Loss, the only one who can cure Bill-E. They try to find out how he controls himself but as they do, it turns out Bill-E is the werewolf and Dervish, his friend Meera and Grubbs barely survive the encounter due to his foolishness. He goes to life with him and meets Bill-E, who thinks that Dervish is his father and a werewolf. Then one day his uncle Dervish shows up and believes him and helps him get out of the institution. At his aunt he sneaks out at night and goes home to find his family slaughtered by demons commanded by Demon Master Lord Loss, using magic he escapes and ends up in psychiatric care where nobody believes him about the demons. Then suddenly the situation changes, he is no longer grounded and he is sent to stay with his aunt after Gret apologizes to him for telling and being given several presents. For this he is grounded without any video entertainment.

He finds out his sister Gret told on him and gets her back by putting rat guts on her towel. The books start as one day, Grubbs Grady is being called out of class for smoking and then he is punished by his mother for it at home.
