num_pages: 354
description: Travis Wren has an unusual talent for locating missing people. Hired by families as a last resort he requires only a single object to find the person who has vanished. When he takes on the case of Maggie St. Jamesa well-known author of dark macabre childrens bookshes led to a place many believed to be only a legend. Called Pastoral this reclusive community was founded in the 1970s by like-minded people searching for a simpler way of life. By all accounts the commune shouldnt exist anymore and soon after Travis stumbles upon it he disappears. Just like Maggie St. James. Years later Theo a lifelong member of Pastoral discovers Traviss abandoned truck beyond the border of the community. No one is allowed in or out not when theres a risk of bringing a diseaserotinto Pastoral. Unraveling the mystery of what happened reveals secrets that Theo his wife Calla and her sister Bee keep from one another. Secrets that prove their perfect isolated world isnt as safe as they believedand that darkness takes many forms. Hauntingly beautiful hypnotic and bewitching A History of Wild Places is a story about fairy tales our fear of the dark and losing yourself within the wilderness of your mind.
language: English
title: A History of Wild Places
publisher: Atria Books