Overview

Deputy Anne Becker is a woman at war with her own past, stubbornly trying to reclaim her family’s decaying home from a forest that seems to want it back. When a visiting academic is found brutally killed, the easy explanation is a bear attack. But Anne, cursed with a "family sense" for the unnatural, knows the truth is far more terrifying.

Special Agent Nicole Russo is a woman of logic, exiled from the big city to close a dead-end case. She expects a backwater town and an incompetent local cop. She doesn't expect a conspiracy that stretches back centuries, a cover-up protected by a serene, fanatical pastor, or a deputy whose quiet competence and unnerving knowledge of the local "folklore" challenges her at every turn.

As the two women are drawn deeper into the town's bloody secrets, they uncover a pact with an ancient entity that demands a terrible price. With a deadline ticking down to the annual Harvest Festival, they must forge a desperate alliance to stop a ritual sacrifice. But in a town where the woods themselves are the enemy, survival might cost them their sanity, their careers, and their souls.