Grey Dog

The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd-spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist-accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her past-riddled with grief and shame-has never seemed so far away.

But then Ada begins to witness strange and grisly phenomena: a swarm of dying crick...