A haunting coming-of-age story where a young man's curse is the key to unlocking a town's darkest secret.
David Witt is cursed. After a tragic accident as a boy, he sees a deadly red omen in the eyes of those around him, an omen that has foretold death three times. To protect the world from himself, he never looks up.
His mother, desperate to help her son, secretly arranges for him to work with their neighbor, Dr. Jesse Peters. The retired psychiatrist believes he can help David through hypnosis, but he has his own motives. He's been watching David for years, convinced the boy's strange affliction is connected to a horrific incident from his own youth, a night of partying in the local woods that ended in the disappearance of a girl named Silvia.
As Dr. Peters pulls back the layers of David's mind, long-buried memories surface. David begins to communicate with Silvia's spirit, a beautiful and vengeful presence who reveals the truth about that fateful night and the role David's own father played. The line between past and present blurs as the town's powerful leaders, including a determined senator who wants to bury the past under concrete, scramble to keep their secret hidden.
David finds himself at the center of a decades-old mystery, caught between the living and the dead. To break his curse and end the cycle of tragedy, he must lead the very men who caused Silvia's death back into the woods to finally lay her to rest. But some secrets don't want to stay buried, and the price for peace may be higher than anyone imagined.
David Witt's Red is a gripping supernatural thriller that explores the weight of guilt, the power of redemption, and the long shadows cast by the secrets of the past.
