Aden Anderson had never feared the forest. She'd grown up surrounded by it. But she'd been gone a long time. When she returns for her father's funeral, she discovers something menacing withing the shadows of the trees. No it's up to her, her late father's deputy, now the sheriff, an old boyfriend she hasn't see in 18 years, a childhood chum, a Native American wise man, and a mechanically inclined medic to save the residents of Sweetvale from the dark predator.