In a place where trees keep secrets, evil takes root. Deep in the South Carolina Lowcountry’s dense pine forests, trouble lurks at the Stilton Pine lumber mill.

Corey Matthews has just discovered a mangled body at his workstation and fears the worst when his best friend, Donnie Johnston is missing. Has the methamphetamine drug ring also been busted? An outbreak of meth in the mill has Corey and many of his fellow union coworkers hooked on its cheap, easy high.

The mill owners along with the town’s police chief are intent on driving out the scourge. But Donnie’s estranged wife, Deputy Valerie Johnston, has her own mission in mind.

Stilton Pine sizzles with rage, jealousy, fear, and addiction as the normally peaceful town of St. Michael descends into chaos amidst the unleashed turmoil.

Who is responsible for the death of one of their leading citizens, and will they be held to justice? Who can be trusted, and who is being framed? It’s a race against time as a cross-team of law enforcement pool their resources in a desperate search for the source of the drugs and the perpetrators behind the brutal murder. .