Awakening Within© is the story of a young woman, Julia, who is haunted by her past. Tragedy and recurring nightmares mark the last few years of her life. Two men, a psychiatrist and a priest, are helping her work through her grief in order to help her move on with her life. Neither is who they seem. In the small town near Branson, Missouri, where Julia lives, a serial rapist and murderer takes the lives of two young women. The town grows fearful the longer the crimes go unsolved. Locked in a makeshift prison, Julia ends up facing the demon in the middle of the woods-where no one can hear her scream.