Why we’re excited
Julia's family heads to an isolated cabin for the summer, and Julia brings along Kennedy, the friend she secretly likes. The break she hoped for ends when a barefoot girl in ragged clothes walks out of the trees. Soon the pair are lost in the wilderness with a stranger they cannot trust, caught up in an old ritual as people start to die.
Kate Alice Marshall wrote the young adult survival story I Am Still Alive and the adult thriller What Lies in the Woods. This standalone returns to dangerous forests and buried secrets and fits teens who like their thrillers with a cult and a body count.
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What to know about We Are the Hunted
Kate Alice Marshall is a familiar name here: 5 of Kate Alice Marshall’s books have full reviews, averaging 4.0 out of 5. Our highest-rated so far is The Girls Before (4★).
From the publisher
From the bestselling author of I Am Still Alive, a spine-chilling thriller about a cult and the dark woods hiding its secrets!
Julia is in desperate need of a fresh start, and this summer is the perfect opportunity. A remote cabin with no one around for miles except for her family and Kennedy—her best friend and secret crush—is exactly what she needs to put the past year behind her.
But when a barefoot girl emerges from the woods in tattered clothes, those plans are shattered. Before they know what's happened, Julia and Kennedy are alone in a vast wilderness with a mysterious girl who may or may not be who she says she is. Then the bodies start dropping as they find themselves at the heart of an ancient ritual.
But in these woods, the hunted can easily become the hunter. Loyalties will be tested, family ties strained, and every truth questioned as Julia has to face a side of herself that she's long sought to repress. With life and death in the balance on every page, master-of-suspense Kate Alice Marshall once again delivers a nail-biting tour de force that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
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