Secrets in the Woods

<p><strong>On October 8 1871 fire turned night into a living hell.</strong> </p><p>While Chicago's blaze claimed the headlines a fiercer and more devastating inferno swept across Wisconsin's Green Bay peninsula-obliterating farms forests and families in its path.</p><p>Here among immigrant settlers carving new lives from the wilderness survival came down to split-second choices: to run to hide to fight the flames. Mothers shielded children with their bodies fathers vanished into smoke and neighbors faced the firestorm with nothing but faith and will.</p><p>Inspired by forgotten accounts and newspaper fragments <em>Secrets in the Woods</em> brings to life the untold human drama of one of America's most harrowing nights-a story of resilience loss and the fragile hope that rises from the ashes.</p>