Some scars don't fade. They call you back.
Two years after a small-town abduction in the Catskills, the survivors are still learning to live in a world that feels both familiar and alien. Their families and friends have never doubted them—though that belief brings its own shadows that bend the world. Nightmares creep in, memories falter, and a persistent sense of something just beyond their reach hangs in the air. Ordinary life has become fragile for those shunned and discarded.
Now, on the ancient farmland where the victims were returned—land once sacred to the Esopus people—a luxury event center rises, shining under the night sky. Its grand opening promises music, lights, and celebration. But as the first melodic notes drift across the fields, the air begins to hum, shadows stir, and time itself seems to shiver. The survivors notice signs others cannot see: the visitors never truly left.
Darkly humorous, unnervingly intimate, and charged with quiet dread, Second Nature plunges readers into the unhinged world of those who survive the inexplicable, asking what it means to keep living when the impossible might be watching and waiting just beyond the light.
