The Garden Below

She was the only child to make it out of Jabbok alive... Now, the nightmare begins again.

In 1989, four-year-old Sabine Arnot survived the unthinkable: a brutal FBI raid on a doomsday cult deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Sabine's sister vanished, and the site was sealed off, left to rot under snow and ice.

Thirty-six years later, the place has been reborn as Eden in the Wilderness, a reform school run by a disgraced military officer. When true-crime podcaster Rachel Kirk begins investigating, she hears uncanny echoes of the cult's buried past. Eager for answers, she turns to the only living witness: Sabine.

Against every instinct, Sabine returns to the place that nearly claimed her life. Together, the women find a strange garden humming beneath the surface. As Sabine and Rachel grow closer, they uncover a deadly conspiracy.

To stop it, they'll have to dig up the truth—and survive it.

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