BERKLEY

An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019

Copyright © 2019 by Diane Les Becquets

Penguin Random House supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin Random House to continue to publish books for every reader.

BERKLEY and the BERKLEY & B colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Two lines of “The Garden Shukkei-en” from The Angel of History by Carolyn Forché. Copyright © 1994 by Carolyn Forché. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Les Becquets, Diane, author.

Title: The last woman in the forest / Diane Les Becquets.

Description: First edition. | New York : Berkley, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018020580| ISBN 9780399587047 (hardback) |ISBN 9780399587054 (ebook)

Subjects: | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3612.E74 L37 2019 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020580

Cover design by Vikki Chu

Cover photo of frozen river with snow-covered trees by PlainPicture / Cavan Images; husky by Nick Trinadcat / Getty Images; female hiker by Creative Family / Shutterstock.com

Interior art: pine forest silhouette © Kobsoft / Shutterstock.com

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Version_1 KzuWFmyklklIZzYO9Q3BKIGx3XneW6Q2VH+OEwCZgSRLERsSzvIra0bNBF54oP1Q