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NO ONE CAN ENTER. NO ONE CAN LEAVE. NO ONE IS SAFE.

A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the initial anniversary from the mishap strategies, some residents are permitted to return past the national guard roadblocks.

Mount Wish natives Maggie and Jordan quickly find that their hometown is not as it used to be before. Downed mobile networks fail to resume service. Animals savagely attack humans. And the damaged power seed, where Jordan’s dad can be an engineer, can be under military lockdown.

As relatives and buddies morph into terrifying strangers, the teenagers increasingly switch one to the other. Their determination to discover who – or what – has taken control of Mount Hope soon has them in the cross-hairs of a presence even more sinister than any they could possess imagined. And there’s no place to operate inside a community that’s been taken.