Wilderness

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Some shadows never let go.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Seventeen-year-old Cody Sterling doesn't believe he's crazy. He sees creatures no one else can-spectrals made of light and dark energies. He knows they're real because he watched one kill his father. Ever since that same presence has haunted him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The doctors call it trauma.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cody knows better.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He calls it Mr. Shadow.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After a violent incident at school and a devastating betrayal at home Cody is sent to New Beginnings a wilderness therapy program deep in Idaho's remote Payette National Forest. Surrounded by towering pines and complete isolation he joins four other troubled teens and two counselors determined to pull them back from the edge.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But Cody didn't leave everything behind. Mr. Shadow followed-and the woods are the perfect feeding ground.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As secrets surface and the group begins to unravel Cody must make an impossible choice: speak up about what haunts him... or watch everyone be swallowed by the dark. With something monstrous closing in survival means more than staying alive-it means facing the darkness inside and out.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>WILDERNESS</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is the chilling first book in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Spectral Chronicles</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a cinematic YA horror series that blends psychological suspense supernatural terror and an unflinching journey through trauma truth and healing. Perfect for fans of Neal Shusterman Courtney Gould and Rory Power.</span></p>