Private detective Charlie Parker has come home. To the Maine landscape of his youth, the ghosts of his past and the brutal slaying of a young mother and her son. Forced to embark on a nerve-shredding manhunt. Parker soon closes in on his prime suspect. To stop the killer. Parker will have to solve a thirty-year-old puzzle and map the nightmare wilderness of his own past an his own heart. And confront a legend that is evil incarnate.