My Throat an Open Grave

Winston, Pennsylvania, is a small town where people fear the Lord of the Wood nearly as much as they fear God. Local legend holds that ghosts in the forest nearby take babies left unattended and leave odd tokens of wood and bone behind.

Leah Jones has always treated the story as a way to frighten children. Then her baby brother vanishes. Ashamed, and under the weight of the town's judgment, she crosses the river into the forest, the Lord of the Wood's domain, to bring him home.

The devilish figure who has haunted Winston for generations is not what she expects. He offers to return her brother, but only for a price.

The bargain draws Leah toward secrets the town has kept buried for decades. As she digs them up, the things she was raised to fear begin to look different, and she has to decide what she believes. The book reads as a folk-horror story with a dark, eerie setting.