Award-winning novelist and nature writer Inga Simpson terrifies and
enthralls with this truly remarkable novel of a woman who must face her
worst fears to find survive and find beauty in a world under attack.
Fear is her cage. But what's outside is worse...
It's night, and the walls of Rachel's home creak in the darkness of the
Australian bush. Her fear of other people has led her to a reclusive
life as far from them as possible, her only occasional contact with her
sister.
A hammering on the door. There stand a mother, Hannah, and her sick
baby. They are running for their lives from a mysterious death sweeping
the Australian countryside - so soon, too soon, after everything.
Now Rachel must face her worst fears to help Hannah, search for her
sister, and discover just what terror was born of us. . . and how to
survive it.
For fans of BIRDBOX and A QUIET PLACE, this remarkable, terrifying
literary horror thriller holds a mirror up to the changed world we live
in today.