A man sees his father die after burning a stack of papers on which was printed the family history. According to them this man was to be the last in the line and would have no children. Other prophesies in the papers came true in the past and there is no reason to believe that the future will unfold as printed. The reason for these prophesies was that the ancestor from whom they came had made a deal with the devil that was to last several generations. Our protagonist is the last in the line. When his fiancé tells him she is pregnant, it appears that he has beaten the devil’s deal…