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It’s 1986. Two strangers, hundreds of miles apart, grapple with disturbing incidents in a one-of-a-kind quaking aspen forest.

Knox is a new Forest Service ranger assigned to a vast, remote territory in Utah.

Sandy is a producer fighting for her place in a tough TV newsroom.

Both have heard about the shadowy figure believed to menace visitors to the forest. When a man disappears and reports of the Root Witch begin coming in, Knox and Sandy are plunged into a living nightmare.

Their lives converge on Halloween. Sandy sends a news crew to investigate the sightings. But when the team goes missing, and a shocking video surfaces, revealing the ghastly truth, Knox and Sandy face the biggest decision of their lives.

This novel is based on the short story, The Root Witch: An Urban Legend Caught on Tape.

Available in paperback or on Kindle. Get the audiobook from Audible or iTunes.

The Root Witch is part of Debra Castaneda’s Dark Earth Rising series of standalone novels.