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Televangelist Peter Boothe's plans to build a mega-church on the banks of the Pedernales River are threatened when backhoe operator Hollis Farley unearths a dinosaur fossil on the site, but when Farley turns up dead, Game Warden John Marlin joins the investigation and discovers a host of suspects.

An unidentified wild creature is on the lose in Blanco and when a dead body turns up with a fang-like wound in its neck, the locals are sure they are dealing with a mythical vampirish beast called a chupacabra. It's up to game warden John Marlin to make sense of the eerie events before another body shows up.