In the quiet farmland of rural Pennsylvania, something is missing.

Not just the girls—though they’re vanishing, one by one, like smoke in the trees—but something deeper. Something older. Something that’s been waiting.

When a young detective is assigned to the case, she thinks she’s chasing a pattern. What she finds is a story buried in the bones of the town, whispered through abandoned factories and bustling corporate parks.

Because in this town, what was once believed to be tame has become something wild.