The Broken Places

Ryne Burdette has lost nearly everything in one year. His family is gone, he has no job, and his marriage ended after his wife's miscarriage. When he inherits the old family hunting cabin in the Yukon forest, he sees a chance to begin again.

He plans a weekend there with his two closest friends, Noah and Shawn. Each man brings a trauma of his own into the cold, remote woods, and the friendship between them has outlasted every earlier blow.

The cabin's surroundings soon feel off. The nature around it does not behave as it should, and the villagers nearby have something not quite human about them, a wrongness the men cannot name.

The book combines folk horror with Lovecraftian dread and pairs both with a close look at grief. Its mood is bleak and heavily atmospheric. Three damaged men are cut off in a place that seems intent on breaking them further, and the question is whether their friendship can hold.