Whispers in the Pines

By K.T. Bollenbach

A haunting psychological thriller where survival is only half the battle-and the mind is the real wilderness.

After a brutal breakup, Paisley craves silence. Escape. So when her best friend McKinley suggests a backwoods hiking trip through the Mendocino National Forest, it feels like the perfect reset. Just the two of them, deep in the pines. No cell service. No past. No pressure.

But the forest doesn't care why you came. And it has a way of stripping everything down-hope, reason, even reality.

As days stretch longer and the trails vanish into mist, things begin to fracture. The shadows feel too close. The trees too watchful. And McKinley... she's not acting like herself. Her voice is softer. Her smile too still. Sometimes, when Paisley turns to talk to her, no one's there at all.

Is it exhaustion? Fear? Starvation?

Or is she truly alone now?

Whispers in the Pines is a taut, atmospheric thriller that blurs the line between memory and madness, where the scariest question isn't how to get out- it's whether you were ever really alone to begin with.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FKBQ4C3B
• ISBN13: 9798294046712
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"