Deep in the Yukon wilderness, in a place built for people to disappear where there is only one rule—stay out of the forest—Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are called in to investigate the murder of the town’s construction crew members who broke it.

Escaping to an off-the-grid domestic violence shelter community with her best friend, whose ex-husband has targeted them both with violence, homicide detective Casey Duncan investigates a first murder in the community and realizes that she may be in greater danger than before.