She believes he is hiding something from her and is being distant. Her husband doesn't seem to be entirely on-board, but she notes he has not been himself lately. She and her husband cannot have children.

Months pass while hope ebbs away, food diminishes, livestock dies, and fall is turning into winter. Raised in isolation, taught to fear the outside world, two teen sisters, Wren and Sage are left alone in their family cabin in upstate New York after their mother leaves seeking medical attention for their younger sister, Evie. They’ll discover what’s been hidden from them, what they’re running from, and the secrets that have left them in the dark their entire lives. This is where Wren and Sage must confront something more chilling than the unknowable. Past the thicket of dread, they come upon a house on the other side of the pines. To escape, Wren and her sister must break the rule they’ve grown up with: never go beyond the forest. He claims to be looking for the girls’ mother, and he’s not leaving without them.

And they never return.Īs months pass, hope vanishes. When the youngest grows gravely ill, their mother leaves with the child to get help from a nearby town. Ignorant of civilization and cautioned against its evils, nineteen-year-old Wren and her two sisters, Sage and Evie, were raised in off-the-grid isolation in a primitive cabin in upstate New York. Two sisters raised in fear are about to find out why in a chilling novel of psychological suspense from the author of The Thinnest Air.

The Watcher Girl by Minka Kent