On the last weekend before Halloween, the town of Copper Flats, Kentucky pins its harvest festival on a brand-new ten-acre corn maze-carved into a farm field that sat fallow for forty years, since the night five teenagers vanished and the Bledsoe barn burned.
Opening night, seventeen-year-old Dakota Pierce walks the maze alone on a dare. She comes out eleven minutes later smiling a smile that isn't hers.
By Saturday, three more people have gone in and not come out. The paths shift when nobody's looking. The scarecrow at the center keeps appearing in the missing people's clothes. And the farm's desperate owner insists on one more sold-out night.
Disgraced ex-deputy Cole Brennan-whose own brother was one of the five who vanished in 1986-teams up with true-crime podcast sisters Ada and June Larkin to map a maze that refuses to stay mapped. What they find at its center has been waiting forty years to be heard.
A propulsive Halloween folk-horror novella about buried towns, unburied truths, and the field that never forgot. The corn remembers who walked it first.
