A powerful and disturbing psychological thriller set in the wilderness of Northern Canada. Of all the end-of-the-world places he could have run to after he was burned, Miles McEwan chose Ross River, it seemed the perfect place to escape the past. Best of all, he could carry on doing the job he loved -- fighting fire. But five years on, Miles is still troubled by phantoms of his previous life. In the dark forest around Ross River violence is brewing. A small party, out to track bear, is about to encounter nature in its wildest and most ferocious guise. Elsewhere a killer is going about his work, quietly and ruthlessly. As the survivors of the hunting party are picked off one by one and fire rages through the mountains, Miles embarks on a desperate rescue mission, driven by love for a daughter who, until this dangerous summer, had been a perfect stranger.