First published 2017
Elizabeth Sanderson gets the call every parent dreads. Her thirteen-year-old son Tommy has disappeared in Borderland State Park. The police find no leads. Tommy's friends Josh and Luis, who were with him that night at the rock formation local teens call Devil's Rock, seem to be hiding something about what really happened. Elizabeth and her daughter Kate struggle with the boy's absence. Then strange things begin. Elizabeth sees Tommy's ghostly form in her bedroom. Kate and neighbors spot shadowy figures at their windows during the night. Pages from Tommy's journal start appearing around town. The entries reveal Tommy's obsession with supernatural stories, his grief over his father's death in a drunk driving accident ten years earlier, and his fascination with local folklore about the devil and Borderland's woods. The journal also describes a terrible incident Tommy believed connected everything. As the search intensifies and the supernatural events escalate, the truth about that night at Devil's Rock proves more disturbing than anyone imagined.
Genres: mystery, horror, supernatural, contemporary
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: supernatural-elements, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Borderland State Park, Devil's Rock
Period: present-day
368 pages · Paperback · William Morrow Paperbacks
Content warnings: mental-illness