Resident state trooper, CLIFF ABBOTT, never dreamed terror could happen in North Meadows, a rural New England community. But, when seven stacked-stone towers mysteriously appear on farmland throughout town, Abbott knows life is about to change forever and it terrifies him. Mortal danger becomes apparent when the towers begin to move—one after another. One night, a stone tower is transported from a vacant farm onto the turnpike causing seven deaths on a curving two-lane road. Terror strikes again when a stone tower is moved to crush a war memorial on the village green and contain a ticking bomb. Terror strikes a third time, when a stone tower blocks a hydrant, while an unrelenting fire is ablaze on a farm. Abbott focuses on means and motive, such as transport of stone to seven farms using waterways and the sourcing of stone to construct the towers. He discovers JEFF JACOBS has been removing stone discards from his employer’s headstone workshop. Tensions rise when vacant farmland attracts an investor in commercial development. He is pitted against a collective of local farmers seeking to preserve agriculturally productive farmland. Terror strikes a final time when a tower encapsulates a traffic light at a pedestrian crossing, causing a community leader’s death. Jacobs's employer is found dead inside a boat on a waterway. Abbott forms an alliance with tribal leader, Jerry Fox to defeat both the acts of terror and the reactions to it. Abbott secures local control for the town and Fox secures prosperity for his tribe. State police realize Jacobs had motive to kill his employer, who closed his workshop of generational value to the community. When Jacobs, a psychopath, fails to supply an alibi, he is finally arrested and charged. During his trial, Jacobs admits to building stacked-stone towers, symbolic of the end of skilled work. He admits hostility toward developers and intent to preserve North Meadows’ identity as a timeless rural community.