Fawn By C.N. Vair

Fawn is a dark folk-horror novel set in the Appalachian hills. Tess Wynne lives quietly while running a wildlife sanctuary for wounded and unwanted animals, maintaining old rituals and enduring the mysterious visitor who appears each year.

Then Tess finds a doe split open on the road and discovers that its surviving fawn is unlike anything she has seen before: red-mouthed, full of teeth and hungry. When she takes the creature home, whispers spread through the town and old bargains begin to strain. Something feral awakens within Tess, forcing her to confront what she must become to protect what is hers and what the land demands in return.