Worth reading: Yes

Summary: While on a hike with her older brother and mother, nine year old Trisha becomes tired of the constant bickering between the two.

To give herself a break from the squabble, she decides to take a shortcut through the bush and meet up with them on the next swtich-back of the path. But now she's lost.

Each step is taking her farther and farther away from them and before long she is lost and alone in the wilderness.

As she tries to find her way out of her predicament, she passes the time listening to broadcasts of the Boston Red Sox games, dreaming that her favorite player - Tom Gordon - will come to her rescue.

Hunger and exposure are not Trisha's only problems. Before long, she comes to terrifying realization. Something has been destroying the trees and leaving a trail of butchered animals in the woods.

Something real. Something dangerous. Something that may now be following Trisha's trail.

Something that is getting closer.

Yet another hard-to-put-down short novel from Stephen King.

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