Former NYPD detective Charlie Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter and driven by visions of the dead, tracks a serial killer from New York City to the American South. There, in the dark streets of New Orleans and the deadly moonlit bayous, Charlie finds his buried instincts -- for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing -- reawakening as he confronts a monster beyond all imagining.

私人侦探查理•帕克已经回到了家乡。在他小时候生活过的缅因州，过去的鬼魂一一呈现，一名年轻的母亲和她的儿子被残暴杀害。帕克被迫踏上惊心动魄的追捕之旅，他很快接近了主要嫌疑犯。但与此同时，又有另一个人在追踪他们俩。
被杀害人的数量还在上升……
为了阻止这个杀手，帕克不得不去解开一个埋藏了三十年多的秘密，勾画出隐藏在他的过去和他内心深处的恐怖荒野，去面对有一个有着邪恶化身的传说。