A troubled teen is torn between a girl who loves him and a mysterious stranger who pushes him to kill.

Adventurer Alan Monroe is skeptical when a friend tells him of the secret society, Paladins of the Red Order, which exists to track the unearthly horror, the Shiftling. That is, until the Paladins are destroyed and the Shiftling begins to hunt the last person who knows of its existence: Monroe himself.