WHEN REVEREND LARRY MURPHY'S RAVAGED BODY is found on the North Shore Mountains, a sudden search ignites an intriguing investigation that will involve the young new comer Claudio Verallo and his family. Lured by the compelling figures of Detective Kevin and the experienced sensitive Meredith, the youth will discover that a more serious matter is hunting both the forest and the city… something dating back to the seventeenth century, when the first Spanish settlers set their feet on the native land. History, navigation, astronomy, numbers and religious scrolls will intertwined with supernatural symbols and forensic examinations, storming an enquiring cursing all those wishing to come closer to the foreboding truth...a worldwide revelation. Italy, Spain and France will gradually connect with North America, fusing the ancient world with the new world in a combined unique destiny. A daring expedition, a mysterious portrait and an old trial, will guide the growing number of protagonists along a bloody line of dark terror. A real nightmare shrouded in a remote ancestral never dying lagoon, where the eye of the universe is ready to disclose its grotesque vision. Love and hate, hope and despair, good and evil...live and death will be confronted in a fast-paced fascinating narration, showing numerous twists reflecting our very life...because our worst nightmares come from the past.