Betrayed. Killed. Buried. But not beaten. Ben Clay awakens at the bottom of Mourners' Chasm as a living corpse. His four best friends have lured him into Mourners' Woods, murdered him, and left his body in this makeshift grave. Now they scatter to hike separate routes back to town, where they plan to kill his helpless brother. But Mourners’ Woods has given Ben the power to rise from his grave and hunt them each down before they can reach the forest border. Because in this haunted wilderness, a monster can be the good guy. And if those traitors think they can escape retribution to complete their treachery, they don’t know Mourners’ Woods.