Every small town has its secrets, but Black Pines, a forgotten Appalachian village, has something much darker-a presence that doesn't just haunt the forest, it feeds on it. When a group of outsiders stumbles into town, they discover that leaving is not an option. The forest remembers. And it wants them. A grieving mother, Claire, travels with her teenage son to Black Pines to scatter her late husband's ashes near his childhood home. But the town they arrive in doesn't exist on modern maps, and the locals seem... wrong. Their eyes follow too long. Their voices carry whispers in the night. The deeper they go into the town's history, the more they uncover a horrifying truth-Black Pines isn't dying, it's alive. And it hungers.