Nate Holbrook had put his past behind him. When his friends went missing all those years ago at Lake Swart, it had been nothing more than a tragic mystery. No matter what stories they'd told each other about the "Forest Man," there was no primeval menace lingering in that cave they found deep in the woods. But when Nate meets up with Jennifer, a fellow Lake Swart survivor and his first love, everything changes. Finding her scarred and broken by the weight of the past, he proposes a daring remedy for their shared trauma-to return to their old summer haunt and prove the thing in the cave nothing more than a delusion and a myth. But what if Nate is wrong? What if the Forest Man is still waiting, after all this time, for a new friend to sing his song... to take his hand and disappear?