Your father did not leave you a cabin, Elena. He left you an inheritance. For Elena, the mountain was meant to be a place of healing after years spent grieving in a grey office cubicle. But a midnight stop on the drive north leads to a fatal mistake: she leaves her keys at the pump. The man who finds them already knows her name, and he has been watching her for weeks. When her car fails on a lightless forest road, Elena is forced into a calculated hunt. Among ancient hemlocks and the shrill call of silver whistles, she must navigate a landscape that was once home but is now a trap. Alongside a fellow survivor, Elena begins to uncover a pattern of surveillance woven through her own childhood memories. To save her sister and escape the ridge, Elena must confront fear from the inside. The victory will be messy. The cost will be permanent. Because even if she leaves the woods behind, the woods are still inside her. A literary horror debut about inheritance, surveillance, and the quiet mechanics of fear — where terror is not sudden, but inevitable.