A murderer lives among the citizens in this small California mountain community.
But no one noticed that one of them has an evil sideâ€"a black shadow.
Even after the grisly 1996 triple homicides at a local masquerade party, the killer was presumed to be an outsider. No one wanted to admit that a murderer lived in their idyllic town.
Four years later, a stranger arrives in Shadylake to rent the same house where the murders occurredâ€"Hartley House. Alone, it was an unremarkable event but for the fact that Eve Collins bears a striking resemblance to one of the murder victims.
Eve believes she’s safe behind the locked doors at Hartley House.
She has no idea that the house has secret entrances.