Patrick Allan Laffoon

Mana, a Japanese-American woman who arrives in Tokyo seeking to find a break from her life as an artist, meets Haru, a Japanese woman from the countryside who dreams of becoming an artist herself one day.

In the fall of 1974, the quiet town of Pinecrest is shattered when a teenager’s birthday party ends in an unthinkable tragedy—leaving behind a single survivor and a crime scene unlike anything the town has ever seen.

A man plays the game of his life against a monster who can only move when he is not looking at it.