A group of student trainees finds a cabin and four corpses in a remote, sparsely populated area of America. Everything suggests that the tragedy happened in the mid-nineteenth century. Who are these people? How did they end up here? Under what circumstances did they die? Why didn’t the bodies decompose? Young and promising graduate student Helen Brooks, under the guidance of professor John Sarens, must find answers to these questions. But what terrible mysteries might this place be hiding? And what will happen if they try to solve them?