The woods of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula are as vast as they are secluded,
and within them, lies a secret.
Graduating senior Claire Barrett is desperate to escape her own mind. When strange and sullen Landon Sullivan shows up to Marquette Senior High with only two months left, his mysterious arrival becomes the greatest distraction Claire could have hoped for. Untangling Landon’s complicated web leads Claire deep into the dark forest, where she finds herself amidst an impossible secret that the Sullivan family has kept hidden from the world for generations.
Claire was supposed to die the night she found it.
Landon can’t bring himself to kill her.
On that fateful night, the fuse is lit. Unable to walk away from the Sullivans’ world of deadly yet seductive secrets, Claire is thrown into a dangerous summer of first love, a vulnerable divided family, and a looming war in the woods that threatens everything. But along the way, Claire becomes faced with a question she can’t bring herself to answer…
Are the lands worth dying for?
Jennifer Caldwell Books 