Against these odds, the law of the pack is simple – stay alive. No matter what.

In the deep, dark woods, a low-rent gang murders with impunity. A bad place to be trapped, a bad time to be there, a good time to stay invisible. But Seth Mathias never forgot his old Cub Scout Oath – on my honor I will do my best, to do my duty … to help other people – and when innocent girl is threatened with rape and murder, duty and honor call.

Over eighteen hours of relentless fight and flight, through killings descending from chivalry to self-defense to murder to rage to vengeance, Seth finds strengths he never imagined he had, and a brutality he wished he’d never discovered.

But with no way to escape, with no chance of rescue, strength and brutality are the essentials of survival.

And even when it's over, it isn't.