"Tips of cloud tendrils brushed over the shaggy green landscape as the two of them climbed higher onto the ridge. Ellie followed her father's shape up the slope as it passed in and out of the mists.

And then an unearthly howl shattered the peaceful mountain air."

When Ellie Forth sets out to have a great Alaskan adventure with her remaining family members, she's got something to prove-and not to them, but to herself. Four years after the unexpected death of her mother and sister, she's ready to re-embrace her adventurous side.

Oliver Cole's life, on the other hand, is very simple: go to work, catch fish, come home, and stash every penny earned into his bank account so he can afford to pay for college. But his life is turned upside down when Ellie and her brother-two nearly-forgotten acquaintances from his childhood-burst back into his life.

After a horrific encounter with the supernatural deep in the Kenai Peninsula, Ellie and Oliver must team up to discover the truth about what happened in Portlock, and how to fight a rising tide of evil that has the power to envelop not just Alaska, but the entire world.