Jim Beaudry is a teenage boy trying to stay out of trouble. But trouble has a way of finding him. Especially after his cousin L.A. turns up on his doorstep, bedraggled and shaking and unable to sleep. However, he looks at it, this can only mean bad news.

Then a dead girl starts visiting Biscuit as he sleeps. When Jim and L.A. discover the body of a teenage girl in the wilderness, brutally raped and murdered, an investigation begins that will put both their lives in danger.

Over the course of one sweltering summer, Biscuit and L.A. become embroiled in a dark mystery that will put both of their lives at risk and will force them to leave childhood behind forever.