Cunning, Ruthless, Bloodthirsty, Deadly, Human. This story is about the creature only known in Legends, a Myth Whispered all over North America. Or is it not just a Myth? The Wendigo is a creature of darkness, an embodiment of evil, cannibalism, famine, and hunger. Its stomach growls for more and more but as much as the Wendigo eats, its curse still causes it to be forever hungry, forever starving, forever wanting more. When Fox, a young army veteran, bought a cabin deep in the coastal forests of northern California, she thought it would be a safe, isolated place. She lives with her dog, Diablo, and her partner, Autumn Cove. But after her partner leaves for a business trip, things get scary.
When the sun goes down, the gravestone statues in Willow Hills Cemetery come to life--including Gretta.
As a granite guardian of the dead, it's her job to make sure her charge--the snarky, hot-headed, lesbian spirit Quinn Rivera--crosses over and finds spiritual peace.
But that's a little hard to do when Quinn's twin brother Jason blames himself for her premature death. And for Quinn to agree to cross over, he must learn the truth of her accidental passing and the bipolar episodes that led her to shut him out beforehand.
But reaching out to the living is against the rules, and to break them would mean facing the most power-hungry and terrifying spirit of all: Death.
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Inspired by 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘥𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘰 (but not a retelling), Willow Hills is a southern gothic story with paranormal/horror elements. 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲'𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 (𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥)
C/W: Gore, some violence, and light to moderate swearing. Neurodiverse and LGBT #ownvoice rep.