P. R. Dunning
The Willow Light
In 1990, Joe and Nell thought they’d found their forever home in rural Maine, a fixer-upper cheap enough to house their dreams and their baby daughter, Ella. But a strange, willow-colored glow in the woods after midnight—and Joe waking at 3:34 a.m. to glimpse it inside—suggests something far more sinister than faulty wiring or sleep deprivation.
As the eerie light intensifies, Ella’s innocent fascination turns chilling. Wet footprints appear beside her crib, and Nell hears Joe’s voice from the tree line while he’s at work. A local historian reveals the house’s dark past: a child vanished from a buried settlement nearby, and the glow has haunted these woods for generations, binding itself to the land.…