Author Description

Five friends escape to the Vermont woods for their annual camping trip - laughter, cider, and the kind of stories that only sound scary in the dark. But this year, the woods aren't sleeping. Something ancient has woken beneath the roots. When strange symbols appear on the trees and the nights stretch too long, Kate begins to see what the others can't - the forest shifting, breathing, watching. Old wounds surface, and one by one, her friends vanish into the spaces between memory and myth. To survive, Kate must face not only what hunts them but what lives inside her - the echoes of trauma that called this thing to life.