Ron Michaels is the author of this original story of a young couple, Shelby and Niles, who get lost in a nearby woods while on a picnic. Although they had been in these woods many times as children, everything had changed. Not only the mysterious happenings within the strange new forest, the story includes how Shelby escapes although Niles does not. When she returns to her community she is confused by how her relationships with everyone around her has changed. What happened to her in Greyforest? And just what is this realm of darkness anyway? How will she ever get back to Niles, and who are these enemies she suddenly seems to have? Then there is the whispered about Gideon. Will Shelby ever get to meet him, and does he have the secret for her return to her lover? Submitted to psychiatric and physical examinations, dodging sheriff deputies and strangers in the night, and being mistreated by new men in her life, Shelby turns to her stepsister and an old girlfriend for help. This beautiful trio use all of their intelligence and charm to find out just what is going on. The more they uncover, however, the more the unbelievable seems to be shaping up. Exhausted and desperate, Shelby absorbs all she has learned and takes a gigantic psychological leap to regain Niles, her obsession, her love. Could it be that the ominous, ever present phenomenon, Greyforest, could be a benefactor she had not counted on? Follow Shelby through the mysteries needing to be uncovered, inspired by unconditional love and the vacillating touch of the unknown. From the first time she asks, "What's wrong with the trees?," until she is told, "There is no time in a forest," Shelby is continuously barraged by the ancient phenomenon in order to control her. She finds out that it's how much control she relinquishes to it wherein real power is returned to her.