Native legends tell of demons and unspeakable evil in the woods around Otter Lake, but Tiffany Hunter has lived there all of her life and has yet to encounter anything sinister. But what's with the mysterious lodger her father has taken in? Tiffany is too preoccupied trying to figure out what's going on with her white boyfriend and handling the never-ending battles with her father, until one night in the midnight woods, when a chilling encounter with the lodger changes everything - for both of them. For senior high readers. 2007.