Overview
āA visceral, unflinching, and emotionally powerful horror novel...this is Gould at her most poignant and most electric.ā āAva Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning
Yellowjackets meets Girl, Interrupted when a group of troubled teens in a wilderness therapy program find themselves stranded in a forest full of monsters eager to take their place.
Devin Green wakes in the middle of the night to find two men in her bedroom. No stranger to a fight, she calls to her foster parents for help, but it soon becomes clear this is a planned abductionāone everyone but Devin signed up for. Sheās shoved in a van and driven deep into the Idaho woods, where sheās dropped off with a cohort of equally confused teens. Finally, two camp counselors inform them that they've all been enrolled in an experimental therapy program. If the campers can learn to change their self-destructive waysāand survive a fifty-days hike through the wildernessātheyāll come out the other side as better versions of themselves. Or so the counselors say.
Devin is immediately determined to escape. Sheās also determined to ignore Sheridan, the cruel-mouthed, lavender-haired bully who mocks every group exercise. But thereās something strange about these woodsāinhuman faces appearing between the trees, visions of people who shouldn't be there flashing in the leavesāand when the campers wake up to find both counselors missing, therapy becomes the least of their problems. Stranded and left to fend for themselves, the teens quickly realize theyāll have to trust each other if they want to survive. But what lies in the woods may not be as dangerous as what the campers are hiding from each otherāand if the monsters have their way, no one will leave the woods alive.
Atmospheric and sharp, What the Woods Took is a poignant story of transformation that explores the price of becoming someoneāor somethingānew.
āUnsettling, raw, and absolutely terrifying. Gould tears open the tender, angry heart of teenage friendship and what happens when our loved ones fail us.ā -Trang Thanh Tran, New York Times bestselling author of She is a Haunting
This book title, What the Woods Took (A Novel), ISBN: 9781250340672, by Courtney Gould, published by St. Martin's Publishing Group (December 10, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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