“The course of true love never did run smooth - out here, it doesn't get to run at all.”​

Sam Holloway doesn’t want much. He only wanted a few days at the family lake house before Dimitri got married and walked away for good. He wanted answers about what really happened between them by the water last summer - a night Dimitri swears never occurred. But when the "Purple Pansy" moonshine starts flowing, the polished masks of high society begin to crack.​

Unspoken lusts ignite, broken promises resurface, and a frantic playwright catches every brutal confession on tape.

But someone... or something....  is listening in the dark.​

Out in the ancient timber, the Stag-King is waking up. And he hungers for the bloody truth.