Black River Orchard Av Chuck Wendig

<p><b>A small town is transformed by dark magic when strange apple trees begin bearing fruit in this new masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of <i>Wanderers</i> and <i>The Book of Accidents</i>.</b><br><br>It''s autumn in Harrow, but something is changing in the town besides the season.<br><br>Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard grows a new sort of apple: strange and beautiful, with skin so red it''s nearly black.<br><br>Take a bite of one of these apples and you will you will become stronger. More vital. More <i>yourself</i>, you will believe. But soon your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing - and become darker.<br><br>This is what happens when the townsfolk discover the secret of the orchard. Soon it seems that everyone is consumed by an obsession with the magic of the apples . . . and what''s the harm, if it is making them all happier, more confident, more powerful?<br><br>But now the leaves are falling. The day