Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

For three generations, the Dufresne family has lived in the shadow of the boreal forest in Northern Ontario. The land has given them timber, shelter, and stories — but it has also taken things that can never be returned.

When Marguerite Dufresne returns to the family's remote property after two decades in Montreal, she expects to settle her late father's estate and leave within the week. Instead, she finds a half-finished cabin, a box of letters addressed to people who may never have existed, and a forest that seems determined to keep its secrets.

As winter closes in, Marguerite pieces together a family history that spans the fur trade, the residential school system, and a love affair that her grandmother took to her grave. Patrick Horvath writes the Canadian wilderness with visceral beauty and unflinching honesty, crafting a novel that feels like standing on the edge of a frozen lake at dawn — still, vast, and humming with what lies beneath.

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees is a sweeping multi-generational saga about the land we inherit, the truths we unearth, and the question of whether some wounds can ever fully heal.