When a suspicious life insurance claim leads a burned-out investigator to a care facility run by a woman who deliberately disguises herself as elderly-yet remains hauntingly beautiful-he uncovers a trail of perfectly timed deaths, vanished tenants, and a sentient tree that demands human sacrifice in exchange for resurrection. Madwood is a supernatural suspense novel blending psychological horror and insurance fraud that spirals toward a deeper truth about identity, belief and the price of survival. A dark new religion is coming-and it has roots. It started as a whisper, a promise of health. It ended as humanity's last mistake. When a growing tree that seems to be helping people with injuries begins rewriting the rules of civilization, people welcome its help ¿ until they realize it is re-growing them. What begins with healed injuries spirals into obsession and mental hypnosis. Freedom is redefined.

Desires are categorized. And those who resist - quiet scientist, forgotten churches and the desperate aware few - begin to vanish. But not everyone is willing to be rewritten and re-formed. In a world where compliance feels like comfort and rebellion feels like madness, one question echoes louder than all the rest: What if the thing saving you ¿. Is just saving you for later?.