1846. Ninety men, women, and children under the leadership of James Donner set off for California in search of a better life. They don’t yet know that this journey will go down in history as one of the deadliest. With every day the road becomes harder. Secrets surface—secrets that the expedition members had hoped to bury forever. Bitter cold freezes the oxen on the move. Food grows scarcer each day. Quarrels flare up more and more often. Disagreements turn into murders and chaos. And it seems someone is hunting them. Someone... or something. Around the wagon train and in the settlers’ hearts, evil grows, strengthens, and gathers power. And when people begin to disappear one after another, it becomes clear: something terrible lives in the surrounding mountains. Terrible—and very, very hungry...