If you go down to the woods today, well, every child knows not to, don't they? Tamaya is on a scholarship to the prestigious Woodridge Academy, and every day she and seventh-grader Marshall walk to school together. They never go through the woods. And when they arrive at school, they stop talking to each other because Marshall can't be seen to be friends with a little kid like Tamaya, especially not with Chad around. Chad, the bully, who makes Marshall's life utterly miserable. But today, hoping to avoid Chad, Marshall and Tamaya decide to go through the woods. What is waiting there for them is strange, sinister, and entirely unexpected. The next day, Chad doesn't turn up at school; no one knows where he is, not even his family. And Tamaya's arm is covered in a horribly burning, itchy wound. As two unlikely heroes set out to rescue their bully, the town is about to be turned upside down.