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Field Trip
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 31 2025
Pages: 390
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
School field trips are supposed to be fun, right? Not for Leah Dawson and her classmates.
The bus door sighs open and the Smokies breathe rain and pine. Phones drop into a collection bag. A storm stacks over the ridge like a held breath. By nightfall, the trees are a wall of black glass-every flash of lightning freezing faces in stark, frightened white.
Then it starts: a scream knifing through the dark. A lantern coughing to a dim, nervous glow. Footfalls where there shouldn't be any. The adults chant the rules-buddy up, follow the blazes, stay calm-but rules don't mean much when the woods feel awake and the trail keeps leading back to the same shadowed places. Someone whispers about an old ranger station. Headcounts stop feeling comforting.
Leah sees patterns other people miss. She also knows this: fear edits the truth. Sometimes our memories deceive us-and in these mountains, the past doesn't like being misremembered. To make it home, Leah will have to choose who to trust, which story to believe, and what to face head-on... before the night finishes its own tally.
Attendance is mandatory. Survival is extra credit.
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