Twenty years ago, in The Talisman, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to aparallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her territories"twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have broughtcataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicidedetective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He hasno recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leavethe police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken thosememories.

When a Series of gruesome murders occur in westernWisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by areal-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperiencedforce find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has amysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town?What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that iswhat they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someoneis trying to tell him something as that message becomes increasingly impossibleto ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past,where he must find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house and the end ofa deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evilssheltered within it.