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In Briar Hollow, spring comes too early.
The snow melts overnight. Flowers bloom too fast. The air turns sweet enough to make people uneasy. Then the animals go quiet. The ground begins to breathe. And one by one, the townspeople start to disappear.
When Lila's younger brother follows a strange glow into the woods and never returns, she goes looking for him-and finds something ancient waiting beneath the soil. Something that doesn't hunt.
Something that grows.
Now the town is rooted in place, caught between seasons, and Lila is no longer entirely herself. She may have slowed what's waking-but she hasn't stopped it.
Because whatever lives beneath Briar Hollow isn't dying.
It's learning.
And it's only just begun to spread.