Woodland Escape

They say the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but some fences are built to keep the nightmares in. Holly Moss lived a life of quiet, rhythmic drudgery, her days dictated by the mechanical hum of The Ticket Factory and her nights spent under the watchful, suffocating eye of her uncle.

She thought she knew the limits of his greed, but when he commits a violent betrayal against the very place that gave her a sense of purpose, Holly's world shatters like thin glass. Terrified of being a casualty of his crimes, Holly flees into the deep, whispering shadows of the woods.

There, she finds a decaying, abandoned cabin—a skeleton of a home that mirrors her own broken spirit. With trembling hands and desperate hope, she begins to "fix" the cabin, turning a ruin into a secret sanctuary. It is a woodland escape born of necessity, a place where she can hide from the man who was supposed to protect her.

But a girl cannot live on berries and shadows forever. When a handsome young officer named Ethan begins to circle the perimeter of her hidden life, Holly is torn between the safety of the dark and the pull of the light.

From the lonely pines of her refuge to the sun-drenched shores of South Carolina, Holly must decide if she is truly "safe" or merely a prisoner of her own fear. In a world where even family can be a predator, Holly Moss is about to learn that the only way to reach a happy ending is to face the darkness she left behind.