In the summer of his thirteenth, Tom goes on holiday to a low mountain village with his older sister, Emma, and a group of young adults. Preferring loneliness to the intrigues of the “grown-ups”, he enters the forest, gets lost in it, discovers a strange fence which closes the door of a forest plot.
A sign warns him: whoever enters here “never comes back”.
Almost two years later, Emma hasn't given up trying to find her little brother, who inexplicably vanished one day in August. Returning to the place of his disappearance, she discovered the Domaine her turn, where a camp of young people lives around the Hot Springs, with the complicity of the whole village below.
Tom renamed “Buck” would like her to stay.
She wants him to follow her.
She hasn't taken the sign seriously: for anyone who wants to cross the fence the other way, it's manhunt and death.
In this novel, anyone can disappear at any time. Disappear or die. Kill and be killed. Those who were the heroes, narrators, in the beginning, won't finish the book. Those who were their friends may become the main characters their turn - their hunters, or their preys. It's a real tour de force!
Vincent Villeminot graduated form a journalism school and the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of around fifteen books dedicated to children and young adults that are very specific as they combine humour and sensitivity and are explaining things.