Aubrey is a Red Hood, one of the king's dispensers of justice. He likes that the job gets him out of the city, but he tires of seeing too many abuse the privileges of the role. After three hoods go missing in Nightlark Woods while supposedly capturing the highwaymen, Aubrey is sent to investigate. The king warns him to be careful of werewolves, but Aubrey doesn't believe in peasant superstitions. Lyle and Jardin are forest folk; they live...