The People in the Hammock

They moved to the Florida Keys to feel safe again.

After years of fear in New York, Michelle and Ethan escape with their children to an isolated concrete home beside a protected hardwood hammock — acres of ancient forest no one is allowed to enter.

It is supposed to be a fresh start.

Then the children begin talking about the people in the trees.

Piper draws them before anyone believes her: impossibly tall figures standing motionless at the edge of the property, their heads tilted at unnatural angles. Six-year-old Liam quietly insists they come closer every night.

Watching.

Waiting.

Listening.

At first, Michelle blames imagination.

Until security cameras begin capturing pale shapes just beyond the tree line.

Until strange marks appear outside the house.

Until she wakes in the middle of the night and realizes something has been standing outside her bedroom window.

The locals refuse to speak about the hammock after dark.

They know something lives there.

Something old.

And once it notices you, it never really lets you go.

The People in the Hammock is a chilling supernatural horror novel set in the haunting beauty of the Florida Keys — where paradise ends at the tree line, and some things should never be found.