Publisher's blurb: In the normal changing of the seasons, the forests in autumn can feel “dead” or at least “dying” but in most years, this is but a shedding of leaves and the old to endure the hard winter to come and be reborn in the spring with life anew. This year however something dark is spreading out from the forest, leaves aren’t merely turning colors they’re rotting on their branches before falling to the ground. Most assume some insect or fungus is to blame but the truth may be darker still…