Thirteen years after the disappearance of her son and the murder of her husband Ben, Ellen Wells fears an old evil might just be raising its head above the haunted hills of Colden Town. But what can she do, a lone woman, locked away in White Springs Psychiatric Hospital? Sidney Portley is a typical teenage boy, bent on women, baseball and beer. But his past is more mysterious than he could have ever imagined. Events begin to spiral as old events come into play once more. The Burning Tree is watching. . .