This paperback book is signed and comes with an art print and bracelet.

After the death of her mother and the disappearance of her younger brother, Charlie fled her Appalachian hometown and never looked back.

Ten years later, a distant aunt’s death pulls her home.

But the land she returns to is nothing like the one she left.

Unchecked development has hollowed out the town that raised her, replacing familiarity with tension and quiet dread. Locals whisper about people vanishing into the surrounding forests. Their bodies are later discovered miles away — mutilated and marked with strange carved symbols.

Symbols Charlie recognizes.

As memories she buried claw their way back to the surface, Charlie is drawn into the orbit of Warren, a private detective whose dangerous magnetism is matched only by his certainty that she’s connected to what’s happening. . . and she may be the only one who can stop it.

Because whatever is haunting the forests has already taken everything from her once before.

Now Charlie must decide how much of herself she’s willing to sacrifice to break a dark pattern that refuses to stay buried.