When two girls go backpacking deep in the woods of the Pisgah National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, things go very wrong when they cross paths with a serial killer. Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together: a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest. But a detour off the trail leads them straight into a waking nightmare-- and then into something far worse. Something that will test them in horrifying ways. -- adapted from jacket

"A novel."--Title page.