Jon Wesley Huff

Fifteen years after he was kicked out of his house and his parent’s life, down-on-his-luck investigative journalist Kyle Thomas is returning to Essen, Indiana. Kyle—there to sell the family farmhouse after his father’s apparent sucide— wants to get the job done quickly and get out. Until he finds the strange note hidden in his father’s old typewriter.

It leads him to a trail of cover-ups and disappearances dating all the way back to the town’s founding. Connecting with friends old and new, Kyle begins to unravel the mystery. But the established families of the little town will stop at nothing to keep their secrets, and trust is in short supply. All roads lead to the strange, isolated grove of trees outside town, and the unfathomable secret hidden in the dark of the grove.