For fans of The Last Bookstore on Earth and Compound Fracture,a heart-pounding rural horror following a genderqueer teen who survives a near-apocalypseonly to be hunted by a mysterious monster whose very existence is entwined with their own. From a breathtaking new voice in YAthis story is for anyone haunted by the sins of past generationsΓÇöand fighting to right them. When Cedar was a childfragmentedtortured souls woke up in the world’s most complex machinesdestroying them and pushing technology back decades. A fall. The Fallsome saidand they called it Autumn. Ten years laterfollowing a family tragedyCedar moves to the nowhere town of Sawblade Lake only to find something hunting them. A longbent shadow that reeks like rot and has the mouth of a deep crevice. It’s after Cedarand itΓÇÖs willing to go to any lengths to break themincluding preying on CedarΓÇÖs new queer family. The closer it circlesthe more it seems to weave through CedarΓÇÖs whole life. It might stretch back to their motherΓÇÖs gruesomeinexplicable deathto the murk of their missing familyto the house they grew up in. Back and back and back to the first day of Autumn. Cedar thought they understood how their world had changedbut theyΓÇÖre far from dredging the bottom.