Joyce, Mere
9781464258435, 1464258430
Trade Paperback
 
Uprooted meets Midnight Mass in Mere Joyce’s heart-pounding horror novel, As the Snow Gathers. For decades, the town of Aplin Shade and the Fanteur have had a deal: the Fanteur take the dead, and the townsfolk let them in exchange for peace. Until now. And as winter sets in, there's nowhere left to run.
 
The forest doesn’t just take what it’s owed—it takes whatever it wants.
 
Dominic Wright was born in Aplin Shade, a remote Canadian town built on the bones of another that vanished without a trace. After a carriage crash kills his father and leaves his sister forever changed, Dominic must hold his family together in a place that seems to be unraveling.
 
His only refuge is Lex, a logger in the nearby camp and the love he must keep secret. Together they dream of leaving Aplin Shade behind before the forest claims them too.
 
But the woods are waking. The Fanteur—shadowed beings who come at night to drain the dead of blood—have begun to take the living instead.
 
As winter closes in, Dominic and Lex must fight to escape both the town and the darkness rising in the trees.
 
Because the forest doesn’t forgive, and it never forgets.