In 'What Lies in the Woods,' Kate Alice Marshall crafts a riveting tale of three childhood friends entangled in a web of deception. Heroes in the public eye for putting a serial killer behind bars at the tender age of eleven, Naomi, Cassidy, and Olivia harbored a dark secret that threatened to emerge decades later. When one of them decides to unveil the hidden truth, Naomi plunges back into the haunting memories of their make-believe Goddess Game and the traumatic summer that ended with her near-fatal attack. As she unravels the threads of the past, Naomi is led down a perilous path where the real and imagined collide, exposing the sinister veil shrouding their childhood innocence. Marshall delivers a labyrinthine psychological thriller about the complexities of memory, the weight of guilt, and the desperate lengths one will go to preserve a lie.