Taken in the Tree Farm

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>I wake up bound in a winter wonderland with no memory of how I got here.</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thousands of Christmas lights illuminate the land around me-a sprawling tree farm transformed into a mystical land of candy. Behind me footsteps crunch through freshly fallen snow. A voice cuts through the silent night commanding me to run.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So I do.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Through rows of evergreens wrapped in twinkling lights and past peppermint archways that morph this place into a dark fairy tale. My boots slip on ice as he closes in his presence everywhere and nowhere at once.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He knows this place. Every path. Every hiding spot.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He knows </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>me</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-my body's treacherous responses the dark desires I've fought to hide.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When he finally catches me wrapping me in strings of Christmas lights like I'm a present I'm forced to confront an impossible truth: the most dangerous games are the ones we've been dying to play all along.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Each book in the Dark Nights Collection CAN be read as a standalone. Please read the content warning prior to diving in.</strong></p>