When a bone-white crow appears in Sylvie Singer’s garden, it signals the beginning of the collapse of everything she knows. After an FBI raid exposes her father’s fraud and his disappearance leaves their small New Hampshire town in ruin, Sylvie becomes a hated outsider, blamed for sins she did not commit. With nowhere else to go, she takes refuge in an abandoned railway station in the cursed West Woods, where she must avoid the deadly white deer that roam there. In the forest, Sylvie encounters Illican, a mysterious horned god bound to the woods. As their connection grows, she discovers that Illican is dying and that the fate of both the woods and her town may be tied to long-buried secrets. Armed with newfound knowledge of magic and faced with a community that rejects her, Sylvie must decide whether to save Pine Ridge Hollow – or let it burn.