Explorers discover the dark secrets behind a town that disappeared without a trace in this standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and RecursionOn Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found. One hundred and thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a history professor and his journalist daughter to explore the abandoned mining town and learn what happened. With them are a psychic and a paranormal photographer-the town is rumored to be haunted. They've come to see a ghost town, but what they are about to discover is that twenty miles from civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they are not alone-and the past is very much alive....