Broken Trail

By: Amanda Casile

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

After a series of bad decisions lands Clara and her family in a forest full of malevolent spirits, she must overcome her fear of taking charge in order to defeat the spirits and get her family out alive.

This trail will break you …

After criminal psychologist Clara’s divorce shatters her family, she retreats into her work. But, instead of finding comfort there, Clara develops a growing obsession with one patient, a young woman accused of murdering her boyfriend on a remote hiking trail. Desperate to discover what happened and to mend the bonds between her and her estranged daughters, Clara makes an ill-fated decision: to hike that very same trail, with her family in tow. Once they hit the trail, however, violent visions plague her dreams, and when a close encounter with a mysterious presence splits them apart, what began as a family bonding trip becomes a battle for survival. Clara must confront her own demons and the thing that prowls the forest to find her family and get them out alive before the forest claims them all, for good.

For listeners who enjoy Wonderland by Zoje Stage, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King, and Insomnia by Sarah Pinborough.

©2025 Amanda Casile (P)2025 Blackstone Publishing

Emotional and exciting

Broken Trail was chilling, dark, and left me questioning whether I'd be spending any time in the woods in the near future. Our main character, Clara, begins the story already in a heightened state of distress because of her dissolving marriage, her relationship with her children, and her stressful job. A hiking trip to work on her relationship with her daughters seemed like a great idea, until things started stalking them in the woods. Psychological thriller, paranormal horror, generational trauma, all while hiking and camping in a forest that will never let you leave.