Thirteen-year-old Rachel and her little brother, Jeff, are looking forward to a weekend of canoeing and spending time with their friends up at the family cottage on Storm Lake. But something terrifying has birthed itself from the trees, and the kids find themselves trapped in an isolated marina fighting for their lives. Val Tobin writes speculative fiction and searches the world over for the perfect butter tart. Her home is in Newmarket, Ontario, where she enjoys writing, reading, and talking about writing and reading. It all started at Storm Lake ...Thirteen-year-old Rachel Needham almost loses her life to the claws and fangs of the grendels, Storm Lake's monsters. Twelve years later, she leads teams of protectors into the forests to hunt down and eradicate the scourge that has spread around the world.Death hides in the treetops ...Read the whole story in Storm Lake and The Hunted.You'll never want to walk under a tree again …

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