Miles McEwan was a fire fighter an after being badly burned he buried himself in the vast wilderness of the Yukon at a place called Ross River. Five years on, Miles is still battling the phantoms of the life he led before going to the Yukon, the death of a young man, the woman he abandoned as a consequence. Around Ross River violence is brewing and elsewhere a killer is going about his work, quietly and ruthlessly. As members of a hunting party are picked of one by one and fire rages through the mountains, Miles embarks on a desperate rescue mission.