The Blue Ridge Mountains hold beauty, mystery, and many stories both told and untold. Kate McAdams returns to the mountains to help her grandmother deal with Grant Johnson, a local developer who is a threat to her property. Kate is also looking for answers to her own past, but the more she learns, the deeper the mystery . Grant Walker, an EPA engineer with Cherokee heritage both deepens the mysteries of the past and complicates getting the answers for Kate to resolve the frightening knowledge of the present.