"Shadows from the vast, sweeping forest darkened in the deepening afternoon sunlight, as the sun sank over the dark mass that lay stretched all across the horizon. On the day of her fifteenth birthday, with little to do save watch the sun set, far across the fields, Sarah morosely leaned back against the wooden fence post on the edge of District 29, and sighed."
This story is about a family who wanted only one thing for years: to live, for as long as they could.
It was not so easy a thing, knowing that the secrets they knew about The Ridgewood Forest could easily bring their demise.