Broken Trail

(Hardback)

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This trail will break you . . .

Recently separated and her writing career hanging by a thread, Clara needs to get a new story or risk losing her contract-and income-entirely.When a friend suggests interviewingthe lone survivorof the recent disappearances onthe newly opened Broken Trail, she is hooked. But when her interviewee mysteriously vanishes,Clara's onlyoption is to hike the trail itself.It seems like a great story, and besides, it could be a great bonding experience for her and her teens, right

Once in the woods, violent visions plague her dreams and begin to bleed into reality. When a close encounter with a malevolent spirit leaves the family scattered, Clara finds herself lost in the woods, stomach empty and boots sinking into mud after days of rain. A sea of forest stretches out around her on every side, and somewhere in there are her girls. She must find the strength to outsmart what prowls the forest to get her children out alive before the force that lurks between them destroys them all.

For readers who enjoyWonderlandby Zoje Stage,The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordonby Stephen King, andInsomniaby Sarah Pinborough.

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"Broken Trail leads us into the woods, into the crucible of our fear where the grand summation of our choices lays waiting--and no one is coming to save us." --Rae Wilde, author of I Can Fix Her

Author Bio

Amanda Casile has been writing stories for as long as she can remember. Her mother still keeps a two paged story about a lonely unicorn that Amanda penned in kindergarten and read for show and tell. Since that first public reading, Amanda has continued writing and has published several short stories.

Broken Trail is her debut horror novel. Despite having always enjoyed reading and writing, Amanda pursued a different but related career in speech pathology. In her practice, she has focused in part on literacy and narrative structure, and she loves seeing kids "click" with stories for the first time. When not writing or teaching kids to talk, Amanda spends time with her own nice kids and her two naughty cats.