The Gravewood

In a town cut off from the world by an impassable forest known as the Gravewood, resources are scarce and Shea Parker, who is deaf and depends on hearing aid batteries, strikes a bargain with the leader of a vampiric gang: her blood in exchange for the supplies she needs. When her best friend vanishes into the Gravewood, the disappearance draws the friend's older brother back from the frontlines, and shifting alliances force Shea to leave home and journey into the dangerous forest alongside killers, where she confronts questions of loyalty and what she is willing to become. This is the first book in a duology.