Isolated at their cabin in northwestern Maine, Kathy and Dan Simmons struggle to survive a calamity of freakish weather caused by events hundreds of miles beyond Skyler Pond. Frankie Bartlett, leader of a backwoods clan and a man with a demented view of life, complicates Kathy and Dan’s chances of survival.
After a 34-year career in natural resource conservation, Norm Kalloch spends nine months of the year happily living off the grid at West Carry Pond in Somerset County, Maine with his wife, Audrey. He spends countless hours improving their woodlot and thoroughly enjoys all that the Bigelow Mountain region has to offer.