A brutal murder rocks the quiet town of Mattfield, Kansas. This doesn't happen here. On the cusp of retirement, Sheriff Carl Mills investigates an animalistic crime as he comes to terms with overstaying his welcome. Meanwhile, Brett Adams, an aggrieved high school senior in a new town, finds himself increasingly entangled in the web of events, alongside his fragmented family. Brett's younger brother, Dalton, stumbles upon a legend buried in the town's past, and disparate outsiders turn their attention to the rural community as a pattern emerges. Death casts its shadow, uniting those willing to stand together and fight. Experience a 150-year-old mystery as it unfolds through their eyes. Monsters are real. Some of them are human.