PRE-ORDER BEGINS FEBRUARY 1ST AT 11AM PT Author: Cherie PriestPublisher: Apex Book CompanyTrade Paperback: 184 pagesPrinting: 1stISBN: ‎ 978-1955765206Release Date: May 14, 2024Signing Date: May 21, 2024Personalization: Available Note: This is a trade paperback as no hardcover is being produced. Book Description: “Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?” Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer. Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee in hopes that maybe it was their Ellen: Katie’s lost aunt, Judith’s long-gone lover. But they’re not the only ones to have come here looking for closure. The people of Cinderwich, a town hardly more than a skeleton itself, are staunchly resistant to the outsiders’ questions about Ellen and her killer. And the deeper the two women dig, the more rot they unearth … the closer they come to exhuming the evil that lies, hungering, at the roots of Cinderwich.