<p><b>WINNER of the McIlvanney Prize 2020</b><br><b>Shortlisted for Bloody Scotland''s Scottish Crime Debut of the Year 2020</b><br><b>Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020<br></b><br><b>''Hugely atmospheric, exquisitely written and utterly gripping'' </b>LUCY FOLEY, author of <i>The Hunting Party</i><b><br>''It''s both eerie and thrilling at once, and had me under its spell until the end'' </b>SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, author of <i>Blue Ticket </i>and<i> The Water Cure</i><br>______________<br><br><i><b>They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men.</b></i><br><br>Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she''s gone.<br><br>In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetti