While investigating the murder of a preacher with dark secrets in his past, Sheriff Annalee Crow stumbles upon another secret, this one involving the pale-furred wolves that roam the eldrich forest known as Malingering Deep. When Annalee encounters a woman belonging to the mysterious family who lives side-by-side with the wolves, she is plunged into a deadly world where science and superstition clash, and one man's greed for immortality may destroy everything and everyone she loves.