Something's afoot in the area near Crowsfoot Cottage. A strange beast has been spotted in the night, a peculiar print found in the mud.

Then Sophie Ellis and her stepfather go missing from their cottage. The police find bloodstains in the cottage shed - human and animal! Sophie and her father are presumed dead, feared eaten. The army is called in to capture the Beast but it seems to have vanished. What is going on? Is there an easy explanation or is something more sinister sneaking near Crowsfoot . . .?