![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. ![]() “As spine-chilling as it is beautifully crafted” (Ruth Emmie Lang, author of Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance), A History of Wild Places is a story about fairy tales, our fear of the dark, and losing yourself within the wilderness of your mind. Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Secrets that prove their perfect, isolated world isn’t as safe as they believed-and that darkness takes many forms. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo, his wife, Calla, and her sister, Bee, keep from one another. No one is allowed in or out, not when there’s a risk of bringing a disease- rot-into Pastoral. Years later, Theo, a lifelong member of Pastoral, discovers Travis’s abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. By all accounts, the commune shouldn’t exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it…he disappears. James-a well-known author of dark, macabre children’s books-and is soon led to a place many believed to be only a legend.Ĭalled Pastoral, this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. Often hired by families as a last resort, he takes on the case of Maggie St. Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. In this “riveting, atmospheric thriller that messes with your mind in the best way” (Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author), three residents of a secluded, seemingly peaceful commune investigate the disappearances of two outsiders. ![]()
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