The Alphabet Woods

<p class=ql-align-center><em>The process was messier than she had anticipated a mixture of tears and runny noses and dirt and ash but that was perfectly appropriate. Life when lived truly lived was messy.</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>After a series of life-changing events fifty-seven-year-old Key North breaks with her usual conventional acquiescing nature and impulsively purchases a house situated above a patch of woods in rural North Carolina. The move surprises everyone even herself and irritates her possessive friend Iris. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Key's just getting acquainted with this change when she's visited by her cousin Guy whom she hasn't heard from in nearly a decade. With him comes a shocking and difficult challenge one she's not sure she's equipped to handle. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>As Key slowly unravels the many complexities that accompany her decision she finds herself far from her former predictable unfulfilled life. It's as though she's stepped into an alternate world where a little boy's backpack holds dangerous secrets an unseen hand is guiding her and the trees provide the answers she seeks.</p><p><br></p>