Alex Trejo wants nothing more than to get this day-trip to the creek over with, especially because he has to take along his annoying little cousin, Gabriel. Visiting his uncle’s ranch and rowing downriver for half the day is the last thing Alex wants to do. But, it turns out, irritation and boredom are the last things Alex should be worried about. There are stories surrounding this creek, old stories, scary stories. Alex shrugs such things off to boogie-man yarns and tall tales. But he and Gabriel are soon to learn that, sometimes, there is truth behind myth...