A modern re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood.

Sinister memories of Piers Adair’s childhood haunt him, eventually compelling him to search for a strange inhuman group of people whose macabre history is bound up with a centuries-old legend. He traces them to a remote Scottish island, but it’s only when the darkly charismatic leader leaves the island that Piers begins to realise he is being lured increasingly closer to the legend’s grisly heart.

In London, Felicity Stafford is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband, Connor – coping with his debts, and also with a chilling autopsy report which states that Connor’s blood fits no known human classification. And when a young man with the same dangerous charm as Con enters her life, Felicity and her small daughter, Bryony, become threatened by a past that is entangled with an ancestral Derbyshire family. A family who once guarded England’s forests from a fearsome enemy…

A lonely woodland cottage serves as temporary sanctuary for Felicity and Bryony, but as the old legend wakes, the wolves are once again seen in the ancient wildwood…