Detective Sergeant Anastasia Brown takes an assignment in a small New South Wales town hoping to escape heartbreak and humiliation. Instead, she encounters a disturbing murder: a popular doctor has been found chained and burned on a mountain, with strange symbols carved into his feet. The boy who discovered him claims to have seen a ghost. Ana must decide whether the scene points to a calculating killer, a secretive Wiccan coven or something behind the local stories of a haunting. As she follows the evidence through a community full of secrets, the boundary between folklore and criminal deception becomes increasingly difficult to read, and some of the truths being concealed prove deadly.