With meager funds and her cherished dog Copper, Selena escapes her city past to claim her late aunt's house in the desert town of Quartz Creek. Selena admires the desert's peculiar beauty, but the town's inhabitants share their home with ancient gods and spirits whose claim to the land predates human settlement. Upon finding her aunt's journal, Selena uncovers a grim truth about her new it's the domain of an ancient god known as 'Snake-Eater', to whom her aunt seemingly owed a debt. Now, Snake-Eater has set his sinister sights on Selena, intent on collecting what he believes is rightfully his.