Lorelei Wheeler returns home after four years to the small farming town of Annabel, and finds life as she knew it there to be slowly unraveling. Her father is drinking. Her mother seems haunted. Her brother, always a loner, is now disappearing for days at a time. Animals have vanished. A child has drowned, the body never recovered. Lorelei discovers an eerie, unnatural area in the forest. What she comes to understand is that the town itself is haunted by a presence in the woods. Lorelei must uncover the mystery that lies there and through that knowledge, try to redeem the soul, the life, of her brother, and of the town itself.