It began in 1605. A Spanish galleon named, La Venganza wrecks on the rocks. There was one man standing between the wreckers, and a tun of silver—a prisoner of the Holy Inquisition.

Justice of the Peace, Sir Alistair Wharton of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions Court, requests a meeting with renowned criminal investigator, Parish Constable Gray Ellis. Ellis is asked to travel end of the country, at the bequest of Sir Henry Mackleby—a former Magistrate, now retired.

He must investigate the unexplained deaths of four prominent and wealthy businessmen, in a village called The Lizard.

Brent Jarvis, a former ships surgeon in the King’s Navy has a theory. He believes the men literally died of fright.

Ellis investigates and discovers the deaths are hereditary.
The inhabitants of The Lizard are living under a curse.

Lake Superior, 1899

The schooner Night Wylde loses her battle with the Witch of November.

Nobody hears the last chime of her bell.

Lake Superior, 1905

Steam tug S.T. Sargoss is climbing thirty-five foot seas.

The Portage Lifeboat heads out to search for a casualty, after a signal is seen.

After 12 hours fighting high seas in thick fog, the Guardsmen resign themselves to their fate.

The Witch must collect her toll …

Then they hear a ship's bell.

Former U.S. Ranger Craig Sauber, an avid outdoorsman and owner of a survival school, ventures into a National Park seeking a long-forgotten trail.

Information from an old map indicates the elusive trail may lead to an ancient cave. Sauber finds the trail and the cave, but soon realises he is not in the world he knows

In this strange realm he will need all of his skill and training to survive.

With unlikely allies and a secret revealed, he must once more enter the fray.
Sauber must face a terrifying ordeal before he can make his way home.

He agrees to put his life on the line, so that some may live and others may be free.

What happens next becomes a bloody fight for survival.

Detective Chief Inspector Harry Kearns of Thames Valley Police is working a case involving missing children. They are going missing from parks around the city, in broad daylight.

There are no witnesses. There are no clues.
There were no bodies to be found … until now.

Kearns, realises he is now fighting against the clock.

In desperation, he turns to Professor Frank Chrysler of Cambridge University. Chrysler is detained elsewhere and recommends his protégé Victoria Claiborne.

Claiborne is nearing the end of her tenure at Trinity College having gained her PhD, focused on psychology and behaviour in relation to criminal insanity, with offers coming in from prestigious institutes and corporations from around the world.

Claiborne agrees to help. Together with Kearns she investigates the mysterious events.

After applying the latest in behavioural analysis techniques to the case, Claiborne advises Kearns he has not one, but two psychopaths to contend with.

Both are stealing children, but for considerably different purposes.

Both are influenced by the phases of the moon.