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Sydney thought she'd found her fresh start at a prestigious research foundation on a remote Vancouver Island inlet, but something deeply wrong lurks beneath the Madrona Foundation's brilliant facade. As impossibilities mount—ghostly presences, animals that move after death, snow in summer—she can't shake the feeling that everyone around her, including the psychologist she's dangerously drawn to, is hiding something sinister. With each mystery she unravels about what's really happening in the fog-shrouded forest, Sydney must grapple with a terrifying question: is she losing her grip on reality, or has she stumbled into something genuinely supernatural? This gothic psychological thriller brilliantly weaves horror and romance into a dark, atmospheric page-turner that will keep you questioning everything until the final twist.
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