Among the residents of the suburban communities at the foothills of the Sierras, there's an urban legend that the Donner Party tragedy of 1846 was no accident, that in fact George Donner lured them up there on purpose - to eat them. The legend says that there's a curse in those mountains - if you eat living human flesh, you'll absorb the victim's life force, and live forever. They say Donner still up there, still hunting for his next victim. No one actually believes it. But when a group of teens on a ski weekend get snowed in at a mountain cabin and two members of their group turn up not only dead, but half-eaten, the surviving teens realize that someone - or something - is out there. And whatever it is, it's hungry. As the body count mounts, old enmities surface, suspicions mount, and the teens begin to turn on each other. Nothing - and no one - is what is seems in this tightly woven dark thriller. And history doesn't always stay in the past.
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