Through The Silent Forest

They thought it was only a legend. Now it has arrived to destroy them all. Struggling with her obligations as the new Chief of Terrene, 18-year-old Diana must reconcile her destiny with her heart as she carves out her place in society. But when a bout of strange dreams and occurrences reveals an ancient enemy that everyone believed was only a mere legend, Diana soon finds herself thrown head-first into a quest that will decide the fate of everyone she loves. Falling in with a mysterious guardian and tasked with reaching the distant mountain to save her people, Diana must face off against an evil that will stop at nothing to destroy her. But she soon discovers this will be no easy task. If she wants to succeed, Diana will need to uncover her truth about the world around her and come to terms with creatures beyond her wildest imagination - and all the while, she must navigate the turbulent relationship she has with the guardian sworn to protect her... Can Diana fulfill her destiny and stop the creature that threatens her homeland? Or has she fallen into something way over her head?

They thought it was only a legend. Now it has arrived to destroy them all. Struggling with her obligations as the new Chief of Terrene, 18-year-old Diana must reconcile her destiny with her heart as she carves out her place in society. But when a bout of strange dreams and occurrences reveals an ancient enemy that everyone believed was only a mere legend, Diana soon finds herself thrown head-first into a quest that will decide the fate of everyone she loves. Falling in with a mysterious guardian and tasked with reaching the distant mountain to save her people, Diana must face off against an evil that will stop at nothing to destroy her. But she soon discovers this will be no easy task. If she wants to succeed, Diana will need to uncover her truth about the world around her and come to terms with creatures beyond her wildest imagination – and all the while, she must navigate the turbulent relationship she has with the guardian sworn to protect her… Can Diana fulfill her destiny and stop the creature that threatens her homeland? Or has she fallen into something way over her head?

“I’ve still got a real bad feeling,” mumbled Heinbichler. “And I’ll tell you all one thing: This Grimm girl can read the forest like none of us.” Forestry Student Anja Grimm is working on a soil-mapping project in a remote region in Bavaria where her father disappeared when she was just eight years old. A few days into the work, the nightmare of her childhood seems to repeat itself. Deep in the woods she runs into mentally disturbed Xaver with whom she often played when she was a child. Just hours after they meet, he hangs himself. And Xaver’s suicide will not remain the only disturbing event connected to Anja’s reappearance. An emotionally charged thriller about guilt and denial. “The Silent Forest” is set in a present day idyllic German region still haunted by terrible events that transpired there during the last days of the war – a moving story about a young woman who cannot help but read the mute testimony of the horrors of history written in the silent language of nature.

A man awakens in a strange forest. No memories. No identity. Alone. What secret haunts a nameless man in a nameless place? Rohoshita summons the stories of old to craft a new folklore. Mysterious strangers wander the lands. Lands where oddities possess nature to haunt the living. In a world where hearts glow and wither. A supernatural realm hides below.

In 1940, something terrible happened to Jo Wheeler during the Bristol Blitz - so terrible she can't stop blaming herself. Since then she has almost given up on making a fresh start, seeking oblivion in beer and one-night stands. Now, pregnant Jo has suffered another loss - her best friend Sarah Smith has died in a mysterious car crash in the Forest of Dean. Sarah was a volunteer firewatcher, like her. Together they climbed the tower of Gloucester Cathedral every night to look for enemy bombers, ready to extinguish incendiaries that might set fire to the roof. Sarah's husband Bruno knows that a threatening message written in pig's blood was left on her car shortly before she died. He's desperate. Since he can't persuade the hard-pressed police that Sarah has been murdered, he must turn to the disenchanted Jo instead. But Jo is more concerned with an odd little boy's daily visits to the cathedral to light prayer candles. His name is Sam. When he draws her a picture of a fearsome creature he has seen in the Forest, she is greatly alarmed. No such animal has existed in England for hundreds of years. It resembles a wild boar. Little does Jo expect to meet Sam again - at Sarah's funeral. Still less does she realise that it will be Sam who points her in the direction of a notorious war profiteer called James Boreman. As she gets closer to the truth, she uncovers a deadly web of domestic tyranny, wartime slave labour and murder that all lead back to Sarah. There is more to her car crash than meets the eye. Did Sarah die because she knew too much about bodies down a mine or because she was trying to save someone from an abusive marriage? Jo decides to ride to the Forest with cathedral verger John Curtis on her beloved motorcycle combination to investigate. It might give her life some purpose again. All she needs to do is learn how to forgive herself first...

Forestry student Anja Grimm is working on a soil-mapping project in a remote region in Bavaria where her father disappeared when she was just eight years old. A few days into the work, the nightmare of her childhood seems to repeat itself. Deep in the woods she runs into Xaver, the village idiot, whom she often played with when she was a child. Just hours after they meet, he hangs himself. And Xaver's suicide will not remain the only disturbing event connected to Anja's reappearance. An emotionally charged thriller about guilt and denial, "The Silent Forest" is set in a present day idyllic German region still haunted by terrible events that transpired there during the last days of the war - a moving story about a young woman who cannot help but read the mute testimony of the horrors of history written in the silent language of nature.

The power of memories. Bruce Michaels is a Hollywood actor of immense fame. Little Rush is a sleepy town on the Ohio River. The two paths should never cross, yet one summer everything changes. The actor, haunted by demons, running from his past. The town, unaware. Until the two collide. Hudson, Willow, and Mason are high school seniors, on the verge of adulthood. As the sun sets on their final summer, questions assault them. To stay or to leave. To resist the pull of Little Rush or create a life here. The struggle of mental illness. As he drifts away from his friends and sinks deeper into depression, Hudson forms an unlikely friendship with the actor, Bruce Michaels. But the old man is a ticking time bomb, a crumbling foundation that Hudson builds on. When dark secrets are revealed, Hudson must confront the truth about his idol and himself. Bruce Michaels isn't who he seems. Hudson is nearly gone. And in the end, they may be more similar than different. The search for meaning. Jed Cooper is the top of the Little Rush food chain. A successful businessman, wealthy entrepreneur. But his family grows distant with each passing day. The town around him swells and groans, a community blurred with memory and regret. EVERYTHING, SOMEWHERE is an ambitious, sprawling look at the stories, people, and mistakes forming the nuanced landscape of rural Indiana. Different paths, converging in a web of alcohol, fighting, and romance. Worlds collide one summer in Anywhere, USA. The question is who will see the end.

Translated by Michael Bullock, these fifteen prose poems by Max Jacob convey a world-weary traveller in treacherous landscapes evoked through images at once slippery, subconcious and ineluctably real.