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Imagine emerging from the woods after a hunting trip with your best friend to find yourself immersed in a world turned upside down?

Jess and Storey, lifelong friends, enjoy their once a year trip into the Maine woods where they reconnect and enjoy the peace and quiet friendship often brings. There had been some turmoil before they left, all of it the secessionist kind, but figured someone would handle it and yet.

As they come upon a totally destroyed bride and a town, they come to the realization that things have changed dramatically and they themselves are the hunted. A civil war has begun. Trying to head home, dodging bullets, and being pariahs, they find a little girl hidden in the confines of a boat.

Plans change as they decide to try and return this child to her parents.

This was a frightening tale of how hatred can drive a nation and its people to desperation. It is also a beautiful story of friendship, love, and couage in a time where their world seems to have gone mad.

Thank you to Peter Heller, Knopf, and NetGalley for a copy of this story due out in August.