Irvinevelyn
Hide and Dont Seek
They returned to the cabin for one last weekend.
Five friends.
One forest.
And memories that never quite made sense.
The trees behind Blackwood Lake still looked the same as they did when they were children-endless, dark, waiting. So did the cabin. Dusty board games. Old carvings in the walls. A broken flashlight nobody remembers leaving behind.
Then someone says a name none of them have spoken in years.
Elowen.
The girl who used to play with them every summer.
The girl who disappeared.
But as the night stretches deeper and old stories begin resurfacing, something becomes horribly clear:
None of them remember Elowen the same way.
One swears she drowned.
Another insists she moved away.
Someone else barely remembers her at all.
And yet-
they all remember the game.
Hide and seek in the woods after dark.
At first it feels harmless. Nostalgic. Childish.
Until the whispers begin.
A voice calling from between the trees.
Footsteps circling the cabin at night.
A child in a yellow raincoat standing motionless in the forest.
Watching.
Then one of them disappears.
What waits beyond the tree line is older than the cabin, older than the lake itself. Something that feeds on silence. Something that survives because people forget.
And somewhere in the woods-
Elowen is still hiding.
A haunting psychological horror novel about memory, friendship, grief, and the terrifying things that wait for us in places we thought we left behind, Hide and Never Seek will pull you into the forest... and never let you leave completely.