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Jude Fawley, a poor stone carver with aspirations toward an academic career, is thwarted at every turn and is finally forced to give up his dreams of a university education. He is tricked into an unwise marriage, and when his wife deserts him, he begins a relationship with a free-spirited cousin. With this begins the descent into bleak tragedy as the couple alternately defy and succumb to the pressures of a deeply disapproving society.

"Holly and Brian race through a blizzard, hoping a ski-village getaway will save their strained relationship, until they lose control of the car... and lose each other in the storm. Something monstrous stalks them in the whiteout, leaving a trail of wreckage and bodies, and echoing a trauma they suffered last winter. Sheriff Kendra Book pursues them, too, determined to end the chaos and overcome a terrible, guilty secret. After a year of private pain,...