When Penny, a recently graduated chemist, moves to sleepy Flyattown on the banks of Lake Ontario, she isn't expecting anything more than a monotonous career developing perfumes. Sure, she'd been warned about the town before moving there, had heard all about the disappearances, the murders, the lake monsters. But those were just stories told by bored residents of a sleepy lakeside town, right? Penny is about to find out that there's something...