When a local teenager is found mangled in the woods outside Walkerton, the police blame a bear. Mike Shenton doesn’t believe them. No one has ever seen a grizzly near this small Ontario town, and the adults he trusts seem more frightened by his questions than by the killing itself.

Mike and his friends go looking for answers. Beyond a forbidden forest path, they uncover something ancient, hungry, and tied to Walkerton’s past. But the truth reaches closer to home than they imagined. The people meant to protect them may be the ones with the most to hide.