Alice White has a secret that stalks her steps and shadows herevery thought and
feeling. There is no friend or family membershe can trust and confide in,
especially not the strangers who areher willing accomplices in the fevered
one-night stands that areas close as she dares come to love. Then she meets Erik
Summers,a college professor and biologist, who inspires a passion she canneither
control nor deny, drawing Alice from the cage she has constructed to enclose her
life. But though Erik feels her fire andshares with her deep emotions and a
spiritual kinship, he recoilsfrom her words, her seeming delusions, her dark
truths. Until, inthe vast Canadian wilderness, he is forced to confront the
reality of both the woman he is coming to love and the nightmare hedreads -- as
the sinister brightness of the full moon shines downupon Alice White ... and the
change begins once again.