Shaken up by the death of her grandmother, the London medical student Eve goes on the trail of old family secrets. Apparently her roots lie in Canada, in the depths of Canadian Indian country …
1878. When her parents disappear without a trace, River, the daughter of a land surveyor, is raised by the Ojibwe tribe. Growing up as a healer, she has to experience the village being sought out by something that cannot be human. The hut destroyed by a mighty force, men and women brutally murdered, a dark Indian legend seems to have come back to life. River promises to find out what’s behind it all, but she has no chance going at it alone. Of all people, Nathan Blake, murderer of women who is on the run, offers her his help. Blake, driven by dark forces, hopes to escape his pursuers this way. He follows the healer along the Devil’s river up into the mountains. And soon the two of them are connected by more that the search for the terrifying Baykok …
