Retired botanist Dr. Oh rejoices when he finds an enormous specimen of a rare shelf fungus, a species nicknamed the "Fuzzy Sandozi." Dr. Oh's joy is mitigated as there is a murdered man lying next to the magnificent polypore. His granddaughter, Jasmine, insists they report the body, despite the danger in revealing the location of a rare fungus. Just a few miles away, twenty-year-old Elspeth Dwerryhouse has mushrooming problems of her own as she works four jobs in the exhausting gig economy. Her job selling emergency prep supplies brings her to the attention of a backwoods family, the Fickhams. The Fickham men are cunning and dangerous. None more so than seventy-year-old Russell, who is a master of rape, intimidation and body disposal. Russell wants Jasmine and Elspeth "tenderized" in a dark shed filled with an ancient mattress and a swath of glowing mushrooms. Escape seems impossible. -- Amazon