Meg Rosenthal is driving toward the next chapter in her life, winding along a wooded roadway not unlike one in the bedtime stories Meg used to read to her daughter, Sally. But the girl riding beside Meg is a teenager now, and a chasm has opened between them since the death of Meg's husband. Meg is heading for a new job and a fresh start with Sally in Arcadia Falls, but what they finds instead is a town with secrets and a dark past.