A famous Novelist disappears on Highway 97. Her beautiful black Labrador companion is also missing. Ten years earlier, a young woman is cut to pieces by a presumed Serial killer. He was never apprehended. More recently, women have been disappearing in the Okanogan Mountains outside of Tonasket, Washington.

Sheriff Raymer and Deputies Mingo and John have set up a search party. Time is running out as darkness is fast approaching. No one is safe. The local reporter, Anna Doblin comes upon the grisly scene out on Highway 97. Where is the missing person? Is she still alive? So much blood...Her black Mustang, still playing Janis Joplin, sits idling beside the road. A pool of blood darkens the dirt beneath the open door. The shadows of night stir ominously. someone or something is out there. Killing. Waiting and watching. It is time. Time to feed.