Rebecca seems to be losing her grip on reality. One day she emerges from a café into…a massive cavern. Worse, something is chasing her. Something big and horrible. She doesn’t want to think about what would happen if it ever caught her. She doesn’t even know what it looks like. All she knows is that, no matter what, she has to keep running.

Rebecca is lost in a strange and topsy-turvy world where nothing is ever what it seems. Peaceful woodland turns into menacing wilderness in the blink of an eye. Enemies lurk around every corner – many of them disguised as Rebecca’s own family and friends.

Fortunately, Rebecca has some help. Her best friend Skye appears every now and then. Trouble is, she can’t quite be sure whose side Skye is on. And then there’s the mysterious creature called Ladybird (half-bird, half-beetle), who seems to know an awful lot about Rebecca. But can she be sure that she can trust either one?

As she fights for her life, Rebecca is confronted by something almost as disturbing as the being that is pursuing her – the memories of her own dark and troubled past. They come to her, unbidden and unwelcome – these terrible revelations of who she was and is. They may hold the key to what is happening to her and why, but they also suggest that she has somehow brought this situation upon herself.

Meanwhile, something terrible is after her, and she doesn’t know why, or how to stop it, or even if it can be stopped. Worst of all is the feeling that, somehow, she is trapped in a strange world that she cannot escape – a world where the creature’s will is law, and its law is absolute. She refuses to give up hope, and she will not stop fighting, no matter what. But how long can she resist something with absolute power?

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