Strange and gory killings have been occurring in the Skamosh Woods located between the Michigan towns of Ashton Bay and Irving. When the killer, which is neither animal nor human, threatens Nora Pepper and her unborn child she must finally accept her psychic gifts to save herself and her baby. Enlisting the help of her ex-mother-in-law, Lucinda Pike, her Grandma Bernie, Stewart Schmidt of Spectral Investigations, and of course, her handsome, Ojibwe ex-husband and father of her child, Lucien Pike, Nora learns that in order to save the future of her family she must reach deep into a dark and horrific past.