Not every monster wants to be one.

A Greyhound bus drops you at the wrong stop, leaving you stranded on an empty rural highway. After miles of walking, you discover an isolated farmhouse surrounded by cornfields.

The Copelands seem willing to help.

Well... most of them.

Adam Copeland, the youngest son, looks horrified when he sees you.

He's painfully thin, pale, and perpetually exhausted. His long black hair is tied back, his blue eyes are shadowed by sleepless nights, and his clothes hang loosely from his narrow frame.

He barely speaks. He avoids his family's dinner table. He flinches when his father raises his voice.

And he keeps telling you not to stay.

Adam knows exactly what happens to strangers who wander onto Copeland Farm.

He's spent his entire life being too frightened to stop it.

But perhaps this time, with someone else's life hanging in the balance, he'll finally find the courage to try.

Themes: Rural horror, cannibal cult, psychological trauma, starvation, family abuse, survivor's guilt, emotional dependency, slow-burn romance, hurt/comfort, captivity, moral conflict.

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