THE FOREST

THE FOREST

Winter break is supposed to mean freedom.

Instead, one wrong turn and one black van later, a kid is dumped into a place that should not exist anymore: a real forest.

It is not normal.

The trees feel wrong. Time feels wrong. The silence feels like it is listening.

He wakes up with supplies he did not pack and a torn map that makes no sense, then learns the first rule the hard way:

Whatever comes in… never comes out.

As night falls, the forest wakes up.

Something circles. Something sniffs. Something waits.

To survive, he will have to:

• find food before hunger makes him reckless
• find shelter before the dark finds him first
• follow the map before the forest shifts again
• figure out who else has been here and what happened to them

Middle-grade adventure and suspense with fast pacing, mystery, and survival in a world where nature is almost gone.

Perfect for readers who love eerie forests, nonstop tension, and brave kids forced to outthink what is hunting them.