Anna Tyler is under the impression that she's an average young woman, with an above-average temper, and sub-par love life. It only takes a walk through the winter Vermont woods for her to realize she has become prey. Now, neither she nor the people around her are who she thought they were. Anna finds that her life develops a dangerous and heated element as the mystery of who, and what, she is unfolds. With a handsome stranger as her guide to her new world, she desperately attempts to balance the life she wants to lead with the one for which she is destined.