Four old university friends set out to hike through the remote Scandinavian wilderness, hoping to relive their youth and escape their everyday failures. But when a shortcut leads them deep into an ancient forest untouched by time, their easy reunion twists into something far darker.
As tensions rise and supplies dwindle, Luke, the only one still living on the margins, senses a presence watching them among the trees. When they stumble upon a ruined cabin filled with relics of pagan sacrifice, their fear turns to horror. Something old, something hungry, still dwells there.
The Ritual holds 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.6 on Goodreads, a haunting survival horror from Adam Nevill where friendship, guilt, and primal terror collide in the frozen silence of the north.
