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A visceral unflinching and emotionally powerful horror novelthis is Gould at her most poignant and most electric Ava 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 abductionone everyone but Devin signed up for Shes shoved in a van and driven deep into the Idaho woods where shes dropped off with a cohort of equally confused teens Finally two camp counselors inform them that theyve all been enrolled in an experimental therapy program If the campers can learn to change their selfdestructive waysand survive a fiftyday hike through the wildernesstheyll come out the other side as better versions of themselves Or so the counselors say

Devin is immediately determined to escape Shes also determined to ignore Sheridan the cruelmouthed lavenderhaired bully who mocks every group exercise But theres something strange about these woodsinhuman faces appearing between the trees visions of people who shouldnt be there flashing in the leavesand 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 theyll 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 otherand 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 someoneor somethingnew

Unsettling raw and absolutely terrifying Gould tears open the tender angry heart of teenage friendship and what happens when our loved ones fail us Trang Thanh Tran New York Times bestselling author of She is a Haunting

A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books