Mason Reed has never taken the bus to school, but after his family moves, he is left with no choice. But what should have been a pleasant experience according to his bedtime stories, turns out to be a menacing challenge beyond anything he could have anticipated.

They say write what you know, but it’s hard to understand horror unless you’ve lived it.

A house down the street catches my attention. It sits half painted, the other half peeling white, with a quarter of the driveway paved. The cracks are still visible. A shadow passes by one window in the upper level. It looks like my daughter. I know it can’t be. I left her shadow inside the new house.

A threatening email written by a hypnotic sender.

Kyle has a new neighbor at Valley Acres Trailer Park—a strange, pale girl named Winter, who has an abusive father…and a rare allergy to the sun.

After being told she’s experiencing a miscarriage, a shocked woman is whisked away to the operating room to have the tissue removed. It soon becomes clear that the truth about her baby is far stranger than she could have imagined.