FOREST Ten years ago, I ran from the only home I ever knew to start a new life in a new city and covered my body with enough ink to make me unrecognizable.
Then, someone showed up to my door with a knife and a note. The Wilds are calling you home. Someone is after my family for the sins of our past.
I go back to the place I swore I’d never return and my unhinged stepbrother, Tucker, is waiting for me. Tucker says I’ve forgotten everything we did. The games. The screams.
The nights I begged for him. I swear I don’t remember. But my body does. And every time he touches me, the mountain pulls me deeper into the darkness I thought I’d escaped.
TUCKER I’ve waited for Forest to come back for ten years, painting his face on every canvas I own. When he finally heeds the call and shows up at my front door, he’s changed.
He’s bigger and stronger, and covered in tattoos. But those deep, woodsy green eyes tell the same truth he’s always been too afraid to admit—he needs me. I’ve kept the Wilds alive in his absence.
I’ve tended the rituals and guarded the secrets. This place should be mine, but he’s the rightful heir. When bodies start dropping, he thinks he can run again. He’s wrong.
I’ve lost him once and I’ll never lose him again.
