As Samantha Egar researches wolf behavior in Minnesota's north woods, she runs into problems with the local trappers who believe she is pulling their legally set traps. Too, her new home seems to be haunted. Arthur Noone, the man she bought the house from and who is also her neighbor, is stalking her through the woods. Not a man to be taken lightly, she becomes his target because of her uncanny resemblance to someone he once knew. An odd assortment of neighbors become her friends, but none realize they too have an enemy in their midst. She also learns startling facts about her past, along with her best friend who, as a parapsychologist as well as a profiler for the police, comes from Fargo, North Dakota to help her. Through it all she works studying wolf behavior learning that they too are allied with her against their mutual enemy. Things come to a disastrous end for some during the worst snow storm in Minnesota history.