<p><b>Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of <i>The Thinnest Air</i>.</b></p><p>Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. And they never return.</p><p>As months pass, hope vanishes. Supplies are low. Livestock are dying. A brutal winter is bearing down. Then comes the stranger. He claims to be looking for the girls’ mother, and he’s not leaving without them.</p><p>To escape, Wren and her sister must break the rule they’ve grown up with: never go beyond the forest.</p><p>Past the thicket of dread, they come upon a house on the other side of the pines. This is where Wren and Sage must confront something more chilling than the unknowable.