One more death shouldn’t matter… In the Roughlands, you can die a thousand different ways. And in the town of Cold Harbor, between the cursed forest, the dark cliffs, and the wild and bitter sea: double that amount. But twelve-year-old Toby won’t accept this as an answer when his own little brother vanishes from home. Clues lie in the Thicket, a tangle of slums that Cold Harbor prefers to forget…and in the rumors of demonic magic, which the adults refuse to hear. Aided only by his troubled best friend, Dani, a handful of mostly-hostile street children, and his own sheer determination to see his brother safely home, Toby finds himself up against monsters beyond his imagination – including the human kind. Erik Marshall weaves fantasy and suspense in this dark coming-of-age tale, a debut novel that will grip your heart…and keep the pages turning.