The roads are flooding.
The town is collapsing.
Something ancient is waking beneath Blackwater County.
After a string of brutal disappearances, Sheriff June Harrow discovers the horrifying truth behind the whispered legends of the puckwudgies — vicious creatures from Native American folklore that stalk the forests, tunnels, rivers, and abandoned places of rural America. But the creatures are not just hunting people.
They are driving them somewhere.
As poisoned farmland burns, cults rise, schools become slaughterhouses, and entire towns vanish into the earth, a handful of battered survivors must uncover the truth behind the “Old Dark” buried beneath Blackwater before the county itself is swallowed whole.
In Puckwudgie Country, the woods are listening.
And fear is the door.
