In Cedar Bend, Holly Jensen records private tapes to someone named Jack just to keep herself anchored to reality. But the town is beginning to feel wrong. The river keeps calling her back, the days don’t behave the way they should, and people go missing only to come back not quite right. Between love-affairs, unsettling motel-keepers, and vanishing people, Holly begins to question her sanity... and something in Cedar Bend is watching her, something patient.