Gabry lives a calm life. As safe a life as is possible in a city caught between a forest as well as the sea, in a world teeming using the dead, who constantly craving for food for all those still living. She’s content on her aspect from the Barrier, happy to let her friends dream of the Dark City up the coast while she pieces from the very best of her lighthouse. But a couple of threats the Hurdle cannot restrain. Threats like the secrets Gabry’s mom thought she left behind when she escaped from the Sisterhood as well as the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Like the cult of spiritual zealots who worship the inactive. Like the stranger from your forest who seems to know Gabry. And instantly, everything is usually changing. One reckless instant, and fifty percent of Gabry’s generation is inactive, the other half imprisoned. Now Gabry only understands one thing: she must encounter the forest of her mother’s history in order to save herself and the main one she loves.