A week’s visit to the remote Harob Lake cabin couldn’t have come at a better time for Sam. She’s battling artist’s block ahead of a major gallery exhibition. Staying at Harob Lake is her final, desperate attempt to paint the collection that could save her floundering career. It seems perfect: no neighbours, no phone, no distractions.

But the dream retreat disintegrates into a nightmare when Sam discovers she’s being stalked. A tall, strange man stands on the edge of her dock, staring intently into the swirling waters below. He starts to follow her. He disables her car. He destroys her only way to communicate with the outside world.

And Sam is beginning to suspect he’s responsible for the series of disappearances from a nearby hiking trail. Stranded at Harob Lake, Sam realises she’s become the prey in the hunter’s deadliest game…

I loved the book and the way horror chose to manifest itself. Paintings. Sam is a painter so every work of art she created was a piece of supernatural puzzle. A man with gray hair and gray eyes, a sliced finger sitting in a cup, water seen from within, hands in the water pulling someone in.

The remote nature of the cabin could have made this book another contender for “Cabin in the Woods” movie sequel.

Sitting at only 165 pages, it’s a relatively short story and the reveal at the end made sense though it kinda negated the supernatural and suspense before it. Serial killer hiding in the woods is kinda lame horror trope style. But otherwise liked the mood.