Mount Shasta

Some truths belong to the mountain-until it decides to give them back.Fresh out of training, rookie forest rangers Elias and Serenya had just begun learning the ropes when their bond grew into something more. On one of their days off, they hiked deep into the wilderness for a picnic. But in a single moment-while gathering kindling-Serenya vanished.From a high cliff, a young Indian hunter saw it happen: a shimmer in the air, a slip between worlds. He told no one. He knew the mountain's secrets were not his to betray.For Elias, the ranger's uniform became a prison. He never left Mount Shasta, spending decades searching for the woman he loved and lost.Twenty years later, Detective Lucy Alvarez flees Los Angeles after the tragic death of her partner Gabriel, the man who died shielding her. Hoping to rebuild her life, she accepts a post in Mount Shasta. But on her first night, at 2:59 a.m., she sees a ghostly figure in the road-Serenya. The girl who vanished decades earlier.Drawn together, Lucy and Elias uncover the mountain's truth: portals where time folds, dimensions blur, and every gift the mountain gives demands a price.