Sarttini
Raw from her recent breakup with Brody and battling crippling writer's block, Peyton fled the city for her parents' isolated Winter Cabin in Darktown. With a nationwide lockdown set to begin in days, the remote location was meant to be the perfect escape-a forced solitude to finish her second book.
The silence was shattered during a late-night video call with her sister, Danica. A flicker of movement-a shadow outside the kitchen window-made Danica gasp. Then, abruptly, the lights went out. Running on the limited battery of her laptop, Peyton took a nervous walk through the dark house while Danica stayed connected, her voice tight with fear.
The tension broke with a sudden knock on the kitchen door. It was Trevor, Peyton's lifelong best friend, somehow appearing in the middle of nowhere. Relief flooded Danica; her sister was safe now.
But was she?
As the days blurred together, strange things began to happen. The electrician hired to fix the persistent power issue couldn't find a fault and, after his final visit, simply vanished. Meanwhile, Trevor seemed to be around all the time, his familiar comfort morphing into an unsettling, inescapable presence.
The woods are a perfect place to hide a dead body...