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.