Spider - The Web

A Survival Thriller Set in the Deep Woods

By: Ethan Blackwood

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The silence was supposed to be a cure. For Ava Delaney, a solo hike into the dense wilderness of the Pacific Northwest is a desperate attempt to prove she isn’t the fragile person her ex claims she is. She craves a silence so complete it will scour her clean.

But the silence in this forest is different. It is a heavy, listening quiet. A quiet where sound is absorbed, where birds don't sing, and where the only tracks to be found are not made by anything that appears in a biology book.

A brutal storm cuts her off from the world, shattering her gear and her plans. Lost and injured, Ava discovers the unnatural quiet is not an absence of life, but a terrifying presence. Something ancient and intelligent has turned this forest into a hunting ground. It has woven a trap of impossible scale, and the strange clicking sound from the canopy above is getting closer.

Now, she isn't just running from her past. She is prey in a game she doesn't understand. To escape, Ava must face the pulsing, nightmarish heart of the forest itself—and the Queen that reigns over the web below.