Nearly two decades ago a charismatic man called Colin controlled an isolated community hidden in foothills north of San Francisco in what was supposed to be a life free of materialism Instead Colin turned The Refuge into a mass grave as he completed a sinister plan to exterminate his followersall except three children who slipped through his fingers and escaped with his secrets Today Nick Board and the two beautiful sisters Sarah and Aurelie who escaped with him are living quietly under the radar in the little bayou town of Point Judah Louisiana But when the bodies at The Refuge are uncovered the nightmare of the past forces the friends out into the open To survive they must stay one step ahead of the man who has been waiting for them to surface Driven by greed and anger he intends them to take his secrets to their graves.