The Crescent Beach Mall changed overnight from a typical shopping center to a magical vortex. Visitors flock to South Carolina to live out their fantasies only to be driven mad. Sheriff Valerie Dunn is the only one keeping tabs on the riffraff, until her life becomes steeped in the tragic results of a drunken fit of rage. State Inspector Virginia Eldridge seems to relish harassing the guides at Pandora Tours, but she's biding her time around the Box, which she suspects is riddled with secrets-the one kept from her and the ones she hides from herself. Dina Watson is a former hooker who is earning her place at Pandora Tours. She swings back and forth between reckless audacity and doubting she's worth the fat and gristle she was born with. Welcome to Crescent Beach, where the sounds of tree frogs singing in the swamp competes with the screams echoing through the cursed mall.