When Henry Farrell took a job policing Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, he was recently widowed and still trying to find his feet. Wild Thyme was going through its own changes, too with fracking threatening the land, and the drug trade threatening its people. His first big case put Officer Farrell face to facewith Wild Thyme's encroaching demons. Now, he's got the lay of the land and he's newly married a local girl. Then a body - headless and half eaten by a bear - is discovered in the woods. Henry tracks the bear, hoping to catch him. But when his nephew disappears in the same woods they realise they may be facing a far bigger and more sinister threat.