Blockbuster horror novelist Martin Burgess has money to burn and enjoys spending it to find out if the paranormal things he writes about are real. He hires Moffett and Keoph again and sends them to Californiaβs Mt. Shasta. Long believed by spiritual seekers and New Agers to be a βvortexβ of magnetic and spiritual energies, Mt. Shasta is a mystical locale, allegedly the site of alien visitations, paranormal apparitions, bizarre physical phenomena, and even Lemurians, an ancient race of little people from Atlantis believed to be living inside the mountain.
Strange things are happening in the small town at the foot of the mountain, things that have remained invisible to most, but not all, of the residentsβthings that have caught the attention of Martin Burgess and his small army of computer geeks and conspiracy theorists.
Skeptical of the New Age mumbo-jumbo, Moffett and Keoph encounter an extraordinary, hungry creature that is being used to malevolent ends by a powerful and cruel enemy. Uncovering the mysterious secret in Mt. Shasta is one thingβstaying alive long enough to share it with anyone is another.