The God of the Woods

A teenager disappears from an exclusive summer camp owned by her wealthy family, and the search immediately exposes the divide between the people who control the land and those whose livelihoods depend on them. The case carries an older shadow because another child from the same family vanished years before. Moving across several perspectives and time periods, the novel follows investigators, camp staff, relatives, and local residents as each supplies a different version of the family’s history. The mystery is built less around a single clue than around patterns of silence, class privilege, and selective memory. Every account shifts the balance between private grief and public power. The result is a layered investigation in which the missing girl matters as a person, not merely as a puzzle, and the surrounding community becomes part of the evidence.