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What if summer never ends? The residents of a village outside Moscow wake up to discover that the road out to the motorway has disappeared without a trace and the usual paths into the woods somehow lead back into the village. And the woods? Overnight their weedy and rubbish-strewn copse has become a dark and overgrown forest inhabited by something mysterious and unfriendly. Anyone who makes it into the trees either vanishes into thin air or returns, not quite themselves . . . And, of course, the Internet, radio, and TV have stopped working and the weather never changes. And time seems to loop seamlessly from one crop of apples and cabbages into the next. There are strange noises, and strange visitations. The villagers are plagued by odd thoughts and desires, and quiet but pervasive voices call from the river. Objects mutate; phones and radios emit strange mutterings; people disappear. What begins as a one-sided manifestation of the weird, becomes weirder still as the villagers split into factions and odd alliances with the new ""neighbors"" are formed. Meanwhile the forest looms closer every day. Is Katya, a solitary young woman, the only one beginning to glimpse what is going on?

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Darya Bobyleva is a young Russian novelist, short story writer, and poet. Her books have been shortlisted for major commercial awards in Russia, and she has won two Russian language Horror and genre awards. Critics have compared her writing to authors as varied as Stephen King, Gogol, and the Strugatsky Brothers. Ilona Chavasse was born in Belarus and, together with her family, emigrated to the United States in 1989. She has translated three novels by Yuri Rytkheu, including most recently When the Whales Leave, Aleksandr Skorobogatov's Russian Gothic, and Galina Scherbakova's short stories for the Dedalus anthology Slav Sisters, as well as The Village at the Edge of Noon by Darya Bobyleva. She lives in London. Based in Virginia, Paige Reisenfeld is a classically trained soprano and stage actor turned SAG-AFTRA audiobook narrator. She was awarded ""Best Reader"" in kindergarten and this remains one of her favorite accomplishments! From her professional home studio, Paige has narrated over one hundred audiobooks for both publishers and independent authors. She works in all fiction genres, specializing in science fiction/fantasy, thrillers, and romance, and she also enjoys narrating nonfiction, especially biographies, science and technology, and true crime. On the rare occasion she is not in her sound booth, she plays cooperative board games (competitive ones are not allowed in the house), gardens, lifts weights, and spends time with her three cats and narration-and-real-life partner, fueled by all things cheese and coffee.

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