Ellen Theodora Madigan is spending a year in a small lake town in the mountains of western Maine after spending much of her life living near her dad's archaeological dig sites in other countries. Before long, she's having strange dreams about Abenaki Native Americans, the first inhabitants of the area who seem to have disappeared and encountering loons on the water which she senses are trying to communicate. Her paranormal sensitivity goes on alert and she knows there's a mystery to be solved.