With this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of the Victorian fantasist finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject matter.

Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a new task: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children’s book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin. Deep in mourning from the increased loss of their young child, they about In the night time Wood pack up their American lives, Erin gives up her legal practice, and the few settles in Hollow’s remote Yorkshire mansion.

In the neighboring village, Charles satisfies a woman he could have loved, a child who could have been his own daughter, as well as the ghost of a self he hoped to bury. Erin, paralyzed by her grief, immerses herself in supplements and painting images of the horned terror in the woods.

In the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow’s ancestral home, a historical power is stirring, a long-forgotten king who haunts the Haydens’ dreams. And each morning the fringe of darkling trees presses closer.

Soon enough, Charles and Erin will venture in to the night wood.

Quickly enough, they’ll learn which the darkness beneath the trees and shrubs is but a shadow of the darkness that waits inside us all.