Kit Carson's reunion with college buddies disrupts an unhinged killer's plan to reclaim his position in his family's business putting their lives in danger. Kit and friends brainstorm on how to turn Kit's newly inherited rural property into a money maker but the county's legacy family does not want a business disrupting their moonshine operation. But the killer wants to move to cooking designer drugs rather than moonshine, and neither his family or the group from the city will stop him.
What should have been a relaxing week in the woods turns into a nightmare scenario of life and death as Kit and friends struggle to survive the week, and each other. Dark Hearts in The Forest is a story of the Old South colliding with the 21st Century in a very Southern manner.