After two years, Robin, her son, Paul, and her new husband, Mike, have healed emotionally from their terrifying ordeal when a serial killer, suicide and the supernatural ravaged their lives and the isolated Southwestern mountain town of Devil Creek. But those scars are reopened when Mike thinks he sees Carol, the woman he was married to years before he met Robin. Carol was the victim of a vicious rape/murder which was never officially solved. When Mike sees "Carol" again, life turns dark very quickly for Robin. For the first time since their marriage, she begins having serious doubts. Who is this mystery woman who is haunting them, reawakening long-buried demons deep within Mike? Has Robin married a murderer? And has an ancient Indian spirit gained possession of her son? With a catastrophic forest fire raging closer and closer toward this once peaceful town, violence, murder and mystery return to Devil Creek.

Stephen Mertz lives in a rural community in the American Southwest.