Jack Sawyer is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the small
hamlet of Tamarak, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of the events twenty years
ago that led him to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his
mother from certain death. When a series of gruesome murders occur in
western Wisconsin, Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help
the inexperienced force find the killer. As cryptic messages in Jack's waking
dreams become increasingly impossible to ignore, he is drawn back to the
Territories and to his own hidden past, where he must find the soul-strength to
enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forest-and to
encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.