Someone—or something—needed her to open the right lock at the wrong time.

She laughed. But that night, she didn’t sleep.

Inside the oilcloth: a photograph. Black and white. A woman in a long coat, standing in front of a stone circle Nicola had never seen. On the back, in her grandmother’s jagged handwriting:

The moor had been waiting.

Not on her door. Inside her.

“It’s the wind,” she told her brother, Danny, over the phone. “Or kids.”

But the moor believed in her.