A GENTLE TAP pressed against the back of her right shoulder, and simultaneously the giggling changed to a single voice.

ALICEN.

Alicen whipped her head to the right to find nothing. She reached around to brush her shoulder while the voice echoed to her left.

ALICEN, DO YOU HEAR US?

She whipped her head left. Still nothing.

A tiny giggle echoed around her, then another, then several. The soft, eerie sound bounced off the walls.

DO YOU HEAR US?

Alicen McCaffrey finally has the life her mother always dreamed for her: beautiful home in Santa Monica, successful husband, adorable daughter. Then tragedy blows her carefully assembled facade to pieces. Worse yet--Alicen feels solely responsible. At rock bottom, she decides to accompany a childhood friend back to Red Lodge, Montana, where they spent summers together as kids.

The peaceful mountain landscape, accented with lush forests and small-town charm, brings back happy memories of time spent with her beloved, eccentric Grandma Josephine. Alicen starts to hope that perhaps things could be different here. Perhaps the oppressive guilt will lift--if only for a moment.

But when Alicen starts hearing voices and seeing mysterious figures near the river in the woods, she begins to fear she's completely lost her sanity, as it's rumored her grandmother did. Might there be more to Red Lodge than meets the eye? Could the voices and visions be real--and her only means of finding the healing she so desperately needs? Or will they prove to be her final undoing?