Fourteen-year-old Hayden Faye has always despised the outdoors. To her, the looming shadows of the wilderness are best kept on the other side of a locked door. Eager to impress her new boyfriend, however, she joins his family on a camping trip which inadvertently brings her face-to-face with the very secrets she feared discovering: Monsters beyond her imagination lurk in the darkness of the forest. Traumatized by an encounter with these beasts, she begins searching for an explanation only to unearth a mythical world hidden within her own. When this new reality rapidly infiltrates her secure city life, Hayden must reevaluate her priorities as she learns that the monsters from which she’s been hiding are only forerunners of the threats to come.