
Tamaya’s story is interspersed with court transcripts regarding Biolene, a high-energy biofuel being developed secretly in Heath Cliff. When a boy she’d seen in the woods is reported missing the next day, she knows the mud is to blame and returns to find him. While taking a shortcut home from school, fifth-grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi comes in contact with the mud and breaks out into a terrible, blistery rash. and its discovery is nothing short of spine-tingling.



In the woods behind Woodridge Academy, in Heath Cliff, Pennsylvania, a seemingly innocuous substance grows exponentially more threatening by the hour.
