In the Pacific Northwest of 1993, the sky is black, the night is wet, and the Grunge Monster stalks a college campus. To survive, an attractive group of students who know the anthropological secret of a body's 213 bones must uncover the history of the worst campus killer since Ted Bundy.

Working undercover to expose a corrupt judge, an investigative journalist confronts his secret past plus his mother's mental illness and must choose between addiction and obsession or love and redemption.

After her aunt is found dead having mysteriously fallen overboard on a cruise ship, Olivia is thrown into rough seas as her uncle's secret past is brought to life and more deaths occur.