A boy is found with his throat ripped out, the blood drained from his body. It's not the first such killing, and the town knows who to blame: the vampyr colony in the mountains. But out-of-state detective Barbara Atkins thinks the evidence doesn't stack up. People are lying. And Deadhart has a history of dark secrets. The snow keeps falling, but so do the victims. Time is running out for Barbara. Is she hunting a cold-blooded murderer, or a bloodthirsty monster?