What happens when a girl leaves the farm? She gets herself in one hell of a mess. When Emma's cousin Christine shows up on her door one night clothed only in her pajamas and a robe Emma is set on a journey that takes her down a very dark and dangerous path. Christine lives about an hour away in another state and she has driven to Emma's home with a strange tale. Christine claims to have witnessed her neighbor being drug off into the woods behind her house by some unbelievable monster and the police in her town are trying to cover things up. Christine says that the man's wife has been taken away in an ambulance and the police are trying to keep what happened quiet. The worst part is that her neighbor isn't the only one who has disappeared under strange circumstances. There have been seven in the past year and this has been going on for decades in and around that town. Emma finds out just how real the threat is when she returns with Christine to her home and finds her cousin's house in shambles and the police are unwilling to talk. The screams that break through the cold overcast day and makes Emma and her family's blood run cold is like nothing they have ever heard. They know they need to get away from there as quickly as possible before whatever that is in the woods makes it back to the house and them. Yes there is something in the woods around that lake and it has a new target. A target that would make a great addition to it's trophies. That new target is Emma and it wants her to add to his collection.