Disfigured bodies drying in the desert sun... Dr. Michelle Fredericks is on vacation, but when the FBI reaches out to her in New Mexico, she takes the case. Bodies have been found, mimicking the cattle mutilations blamed on aliens for decades. Michelle doesn't believe it's aliens, but something unexplained is killing these people. If not aliens, what? As the body count rises, so does the pressure from Washington to solve the murders. The FBI are desperate, and the investigation leads to stranger places than Michelle could have imagined. The more she learns, the more she's sure that the bizarre murders and the Providence Project are somehow connected.