Louisiana veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a shipwrecked fishing trawler carrying a caged group of exotic animals clearly part of a black market smuggling ring. Yet something is wrong with these beasts disturbing deformities that make no sense. They also all share one uncanny trait
- heightened intelligence. To uncover the truth about the origin of this strange cargo & the terrorist threat it poses Lorna must team up with Jack Menard a man who has a dark & bloody past. Together they must hunt for a beast that escaped the shipwreck while uncovering a mystery that traces back to mankinds earliest roots...