Seventeen-year-old Alice Hall has always lived in the shadowof her complicated family dynamics, especially after hermother’s death and her father’s quick remarriage to amanipulative woman named Marsha. But when strangeevents start happening—starting with the arrival of blackroses left in her locker, and culminating in an eerie discoverydeep in the woods—Alice’s life takes a terrifying turn.On the night of her father's wedding to Marsha, Alice escapesthe suffocating atmosphere and finds herself drawn to thewoods where, in a secluded treehouse, she uncovers achilling secret. The roses that have been mysteriouslyappearing in her life were not just a random act ofinfatuation—they are part of an obsessive, dangerousconnection with someone who has been watching her for farlonger than she ever realized.As Alice digs deeper into the mysteries surrounding theflowers, her stalker’s presence becomes impossible to ignore.Each sketch in the hidden sketchbook she discovers revealsan unsettling pattern of watching her every move, from themoments she spends with friends to the moments she thoughtwere her most private. But the man behind the drawings isn’tthe only threat. Alice begins to suspect that her stepmother,Marsha, may be hiding darker secrets—secrets that threatento unravel everything Alice thought she knew about her family.With danger closing in from all sides, Alice must confront notonly the twisted obsession of the man in the woods but alsothe troubling truth about her stepmother and her own place inthe family. As she unravels the mystery, Alice must decidewho she can trust, what is real, and whether she can escapethe shadow of her stalker—or if it’s already too late.