The Creek Girl

Girl in the Creek by Hugo Award winner Wendy N. Wagner is an atmospheric and eerie story about a Pacific Northwest forest that seems to be devouring all who enter. A perfect read for fans of T. Kingfisher and Jeff VanderMeerΓÇÖs cli-fi cosmic horror. Mt. Hood National Forest has always been a sanctuary for evilΓÇöhuman and alien. The shadows of looming trees and long-abandoned mines shelter poachers and serial killers alike. Then thereΓÇÖs the ruined hotel on the outskirts of picturesque small town Faraday,Oregonnestled in the foothills of Mt. Hood. The one drowning in mushrooms and fungus not even the local expert can identify. Not to mention the stacks of missing persons cases. Freelance writer Erin Harper arrives in Faraday to find out what happened to her brotherwhose disappearance in the forest has haunted her for years. But someone else has gone missing. And when Erin finds her in the creekthe girl vanishes again ΓÇö this time from the morgueand days later her fingerprints show up at a murder scene. Maybe itΓÇÖs a serial killeror maybe itΓÇÖs the spores infecting the forest and those lost inside. Erin must find answers quicklybefore anyone else goes missing. But she might be next…