Once an orphaned child found wandering the Trans-Canada highway, Darkly Stewart is now a grown woman and undercover RCMP Constable with the uncanny ability to taste the traces of murder that linger in the air. It's a sensation like touching her tongue to a battery. When the investigation into the murder of Darkly's partner leads her to a gold rush era ghost town in the wilds of British Columbia, she uncovers the secrets of her own forgotten past. Wolf Woods is indeed a town destined for extinction, unless the residents that call it home can adopt recruits from the outside world...beginning...