From the moment Karen Lewis hears these words spoken over a crackling telephone line, her life begins to change for the worse. Later, she is stunned to learn that she is part-owner of a B&B in the small rural town of Fallen Trees, Washington, the very place her brother went missing from months earlier. She travels to Fallen Trees in hopes of learning the truth about what happened to her brother but instead is cast into a nightmare world that leaves her questioning her own sanity, suspicious of the people who say they loved him most and finally, the exact meaning of those five frightening words:

Two men…have the carcass.