As Anna Pigeon recovers from the traumas of the past couple of months, she decides to stay with an old friend from the Park Service. But she isn't in town long before she discovers that someone is attempting to place a curse on her. She begins to slowly find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans. Now it will take all of Anna's skills learned in the untamed outdoors to navigate the urban jungle in which she finds herself....

While on an assignment in the woods, a young national park ranger stumbles upon a dead body and ends up guarding it overnight being forced to confront her deepest fears.

Anna Pigeon leaves behind Mesa Verde to take on a position as district park ranger of the Mississippi Natchez Trace Parkway. Once there she faces an angry staff that refuses to work with a woman supervisor. Then she stumbles on the body of a teenage girl, shrouded in a hood reminiscent of the KKK. As Anna searches for the truth, she discovers the overgrown woods, thick with kudzu, hold dark secrets that can only lead to violence.

"Anna Pigeon, in her career as a National Park Service Ranger, has had to deal with all manner of crimes and misdemeanors, but cyber-bullying and stalking is a new one. The target is Elizabeth, the adopted teenage daughter of her friend Heath Jarrod. Elizabeth is driven to despair by the disgusting rumors spreading online and bullying texts. Until, one day, Heath finds her daughter Elizabeth in the midst of an unsuccessful suicide attempt. And then...