September. A beautiful New York editor retreats to a lonely cabin on a
hill in the quiet Maine beach town of Dead River - off season - awaiting
her sister and friends. Nearby, a savage human family with a taste for
flesh lurks in the darkening woods, watching, waiting for the moon to
rise and night to fall.
And before too many hours pass, five civilized, sophisticated people and
one tired old country sheriff will learn just how primitive we all are
beneath the surface...and that there are no limits at all to the will to
survive.