the woods are always watching

'The Woods Are Always Watching'

In Stephanie Perkins' new novel, two best friends attempt to navigate their changing relationship as they prepare to go off to college thousands of miles apart. As a last hoorah, they head off on a three-day-long hike in the deep wilderness — and that's, as they say, where their problems really start. Below, read an exclusive excerpt from The Woods Are Always Watching before it hits shelves on Aug. 31.