Bill and Cathy Pender had lived through a haunting in their home, and it had nearly cost them their lives. As it was, it did cost them Shaw Manor and the life of Cathy's best friend, Tracy.
A decade later, they had rebuilt the old Manor and now had a nine-year-old daughter, Gaea; life had moved on, returning to what can be considered normal.
Normal ended when Cathy came into possession of a four-foot-tall statue resembling Anubis, the Egyptian God of the underworld. A local museum curator determined that it was not an original Anubis and was more likely than not a fake. Cathy brought it home to Shaw Manor, deciding to keep the piece of art.
Upon seeing the statue, Gaea immediately despises it. To her, it is pure evil and a threat to her family.
The statue is placed in the widow's watch, Bill's writing studio. In his dreamer's hideaway, it would be away from Gaea.
The statue sits and waits. Something within it has awoken, and it hungers.