Something fell from the sky. No one saw it. No one heard it. The crickets stopped singing - and by the next morning, they had started again. Dunmore, New Hampshire, 1988. A small town where nothing ever happens. Diane Hayward, recently separated, moves into a house on Birchwood Lane. She wants peace and quiet. Instead, she gets a neighbor who brings over casseroles and keeps a notebook. A son who calls every Sunday. An autumn burning in colors that have no names. And a figure at the edge of the woods that doesn't blink often enough. The animals are leaving the forest. The neighbor's notebook keeps filling up. And Diane - against every warning, against every instinct - opens the door. A science fiction horror story in the tradition of Under the Skin and Annihilation.