The Body Trail

After everything that happened in Wisconsin, Layla is ready to disappear. A secluded A-frame buried deep in the Catskills offers exactly what she needs: distance, isolation, and the chance to leave the past where it belongs.But Layla has never been particularly good at leaving things in the past.Julian and Layla's cpnnection has become something darker. More consuming. The kind of love that doesn't ask where the bodies are buried because it already knows.When Caleb arrives afteryears spent building a life in the Marines, Layla's older brother is suddenly close enough to notice the things distance allowed him to miss.The inconsistencies.The unanswered questions.The pieces of his sister's life that don't quite fit together.And the longer Caleb stays, the more fractures begin to appear in the carefully constructed world Layla has built around herself.Someone is lying.And Layla is beginning to realize the most dangerous thing about going too deep isn't losing your way.It's discovering you were never the one choosing the path.