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Aubrey and Joel leave California for Colorado, hoping to start over. Their new beginning is upended when they hear a mysterious recording and learn that something dark has marked them. Strange events follow: puddles of water appear without explanation, and visitors arrive who seem uncanny. As the threat draws closer, the strain on their relationship grows.

The pressure cracks them open and reveals what lies beneath, including their pasts, their anxieties, their shortcomings, their longings and their memories. The book is a horror story with a streak of dark comedy, and it is also about a relationship that has outlasted its romantic beginnings. It asks what would happen if the events of a horror novel happened to ordinary people in the real world. Its unsettling focus on characters explores how a person can love someone while barely knowing them, and how strangers can find each other when faced with the unknown.