Deep in the Adirondack mountains, a resurrected nightmare is waiting for the dinner bell to ring.
Nate Bishop thought a summer head counselor position at the newly renovated Camp Kill Lake was the perfect escape. The brochures promised an unplugged digital detox for kids-the way summer camp used to be. But the new management is hiding a dark history of wildlife incidents that drove the previous owners into bankruptcy.
They thought the massive black bear stalking the tree line was just a passing nuisance. They were wrong.
When a violent summer storm washes out the only access road and cuts the power, fifty-two campers and a skeleton crew of adults find themselves trapped in a valley with a six-hundred-pound, food-conditioned predator. This beast has lost all fear of humans. It has mapped the layout, tested the walls, and learned that human structures are nothing but fragile packaging hiding its next meal.
As the creature begins breaching the cabins one by one, Nate, an aging groundskeeper, and a handful of counselors must launch a desperate escape across open water and overgrown logging trails. In a brutal landscape where nature offers no mercy, survival means facing a monster that has spent decades learning exactly how humans run, hide, and bleed.