In this gripping, horror-laced debut, a young Cree womans dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence on her family, her community and the land they call home.
"A mystery and a horror story about grief, but one with defiant hope in its beating heart." Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club
When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow''s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears.
Night after night, Mackenzies dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrinas untimely death: a weekend at the familys lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, tooa murder of crows stalks her every move around the city, she wakes up from a dream of drowning throwing up water, and gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be SabrinaMackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone.
Traveling north to her rural hometown in Alberta, she finds her family still steeped in the same grief that she ran away to Vancouver to escape. They welcome her back, but their shaky reunion only seems to intensify her dreamsand make them more dangerous.
What really happened that night at the lake, and what did it have to do with Sabrinas death? Only a bad Cree would put their family at risk, but what if whatever has been calling Mackenzie home was already inside?
