Maple Ridge Junction, Vermont. Autumn 1986. Thirteen children vanished in thirty-five years. None ever found.

When eleven-year-old Daniel Harper disappears on his way home, Kevin Marsh ? seventeen, the man of the house since his father died ? knows the next disappearance could be his little brother Tommy's. With his friends Aaron and Scott, he starts digging through colonial archives. What they find has a name the Abenaki have spoken for centuries: Wendigo.

Sheriff Ellen Whitford has returned to town after twenty-two years ? the kind of return only a woman whose little sister vanished here in 1964 can make. Six people will climb into the Pineback Hill mountains with six sticks of dynamite.

But some things have waited three hundred years. They can wait a little longer.