A History of Wild Places

Travis Wren has a unique ability to find lost individuals. Employed as a last option by families, he needs only one item to locate the missing individual. He travels to a land that many thought was simply a myth when he takes on the case of Maggie St. James, a well-known author of gloomy, morbid children's novels.

This isolated community, known as "Pastoral," was established in the 1970s by like-minded individuals looking for a more straightforward lifestyle. According to all accounts, the commune ought to have vanished by now, and Travis vanishes not long after discovering it. similar to Maggie St. James.

Years later, after growing up in Pastoral his whole life, Theo finds Travis's abandoned vehicle outside the village. When there is a chance that someone may introduce rot, a disease, into Pastoral, nobody is let in or out. The secrets that Theo, his wife Calla, and her sister Bee withhold from one another become clear as the puzzle of what transpired is pieced together. secrets that show evil may take many different shapes and that their idyllic, secluded environment isn't as secure as they thought.

A History of Wild Places is a narrative about fairy tales, our dread of the dark, and losing oneself in the wilderness of your imagination. It is hauntingly beautiful, captivating, and enchanting.