Christopher Coleman

The evil witch's plague on the Back Country is over, but a new terror now lurks in a distant land....

From the bottom of a lake, deep in the Back Country, death takes a turn. Within a day of being struck down by Hansel, Anika has risen. The cruel, addictive infection of Marlene's poison has protected Anika from the finality of death. But the resurrection is not without a price....

Almost a year has passed since Anika and Gretel's horrifying night in an abandoned cannery and the subsequent beginning of their quest for answers. But rumors are reaching the far shore that the evil Witch of the North, presumed dead since that night of terror, is alive and strong....

There is an ancient evil in the Back Country, dormant for centuries but now hungry and lurking. When it sets its sights on an unsuspecting mother one routine morning along an isolated stretch of highway, a quiet farming family is suddenly thrust into a world of unspeakable terror....