Corvus, California.
Population: 1,203.
Molly Watson has spent her whole life wanting to matter in Corvus, California — a small city just outside Tahoe, built on blackberry fields, raven mythology, and the quiet authority of those who never raise their voices. She's captain of the high school cheer squad, a straight-A student, and exactly the kind of girl a town like Corvus loves to celebrate.
Then she finds a body behind the church — and what starts as a murder investigation becomes something far more silencing: a secret trafficking network woven into the genetics of the town, led by a charismatic power broker who speaks only when it matters, and has been eyeing Molly for a very long time.
Her best friend is hiding something terrible. Her principal is complicit. And the detective who seems to be on her side knows exactly where the bodies are buried.
"Where the only thing sweeter than the people are the blackberries."