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Three months after the crash, the island has stopped being a place to wait for rescue and started being a place to die.
For Dahlia, survival is a relentless, exhausting game of shadows-protecting the littluns, covering her tracks, and never letting the tribe see how badly she's shaking. But a different kind of darkness is closing in, one that doesn't come with hunting chants or painted faces.
It comes from the quietest boy on the island.
Roger has always been the tribe's most dangerous predator, a boy who deals in cruelty without spectacle. But when his attention shifts from the hunt to her, the line between predator and prey begins to blur. In a world where civilization has burned away, Dahlia finds herself caught in a deadly orbit with the only person who truly sees her.
As the island demands they surrender to savagery, she'll have to decide whether she's fighting to escape him...
...or whether, somewhere along the way, she started waiting for him to emerge from the trees.