Fifteen-year-old twins Nora and Theo have always paid close attention to the world around them. So when Theo notices that the long-time residents of their small valley town aren't aging; same faces, same hands, year after year. they start asking questions that Harwick has kept buried for two centuries.
The valley is frozen in time. And it has been quietly feeding on its own people for as long as anyone can remember.
As the twins unravel the terrible logic at the heart of their hometown, they discover that breaking its hold will require one of them to make an irreversible choice on the bank of a frozen river, at the stroke of midnight.
A slow-burn psychological horror novella about belonging, sacrifice, and the price of the places that make us.