Murklen is full of secrets and silence, and not much else. Cut off from the rest of the world, the village's adults refuse to explain anything that happened before the children were born. They also refuse to explain why Ben, the oldest of the children, is so reviled by everyone. But for the people's silence, the ground speaks. In the woods beyond the village limits, there is a hungry, wrathful well. What waits within it grows impatient, and Ben has never been good at doing what he's told. When stranger things than usual begin to happen, he finds himself thrown head first into a nest of lies and unspoken truths that will change everything forever. The cost, whether he is willing to pay it or not, must be paid. And what began over a decade before he was born will come to its end by his hand.
Murklen is full of secrets and silence, and not much else. Cut off from the rest of the world, the village's adults refuse to explain anything that happened before the children were born. They also refuse to explain why Ben, the oldest of the children, is so reviled by everyone. But for the people's silence, the ground speaks. In the woods beyond the village limits, there is a hungry, wrathful well. What waits within it grows impatient, and Ben has never been good at doing what he's told. When stranger things than usual begin to happen, he finds himself thrown head first into a nest of lies and unspoken truths that will change everything forever. The cost, whether he is willing to pay it or not, must be paid. And what began over a decade before he was born will come to its end by his hand.