The Scar

In the remote valleys of Mid Wales, the land remembers.

When a small research team arrives to assess an isolated valley for cultural and environmental protection, they find more than mist and standing stones. The place the locals call the Scar is not simply a geological feature. It is watching. It has rules. And it does not forgive those who break them.

Jilly, a young researcher still finding her place in the world, quickly senses that something is wrong. Paths shift. Time slips. Old rhymes surface like warnings. As tensions rise within the team and the landscape begins to respond, she is forced to confront not only the ancient presence that inhabits the valley, but the unfinished parts of herself she has never claimed.

Atmospheric, unsettling, and steeped in the strange beauty of the Welsh hills, The Scar is a folk-horror novella about memory, belonging, and the price of disturbing what should have been left alone.

Some places do not want to be understood.Some places only want to be obeyed.

For readers of Michelle Paver and Adam Nevill.