The Dark Forest

College professor Bette Anderson hikes into the Dark Forest of central Arizona with the intention of doing reconnaissance work for her upcoming natural history field trip, but quickly realizes that she has become the object of study and pursuit.

She sees signs that something unusual is happening that she can’t identify. Her fear grows as she glimpses possibilities of a stalker, but she presses on chalking up her worries to an active imagination.

The deeper she enters into the forest, the more she loses perspective while a summer storm churns and darkens the world around her.

Bette’s priorities vacillate from gathering information to getting out safely with a pursuer hot on her trail…