Native Texans Connie Hilton and her husband George Newman moved out to rural Tyler, TX. Very early one morning in September 1990, their peaceful country life is abruptly and brutally shattered.

When Lisa Holden has a baby, gets married and then moves to an isolated home in rural Ben Wheeler, TX, it triggers a long, inexplicable estrangement from her family. But at the root of this painful divide lies something far more evil than her family could ever imagine.