Cut off from the Bureau and haunted by her past, an FBI profiler risks her life to hunt a ritualistic serial killer into the redwoods forest, where ancient myths are twisted into murder, every shadow hides a threat, and nothing is as it seems.

Eva Yang, an FBI Profiler nearly killed by the subject she is hunting, stakes out a part of the redwoods forest she thinks he'll strike next. The Bureau sidelined her, but this is personal. She knows she's the only one who can stop him. Or join him, if the killer has his way. Eva has to investigate in the shadows of the official FBI team, in a place where everyone seems connected to the killer, and the clues aren't coming easy. Can she find and stop the killer before his rampage sparks an uprising with her at its center?

True Detective meets Wind River in the atmospheric isolation of the Northern California redwood forests.