SLS can't get Lambda Layers to deploy/upload

Serverless Framework
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Working with the new Lambda Layers. I have a private node module that I cannot upload to npm public and our company’s private repo is locked down, so I figured I could use a lambda layer.

I created my module and it works locally. I used “npm link” to sym link it locally but want to require it for only a few of our lambda functions.

In serverless.yml:

 layers:
     myapp:
         path: layer
         description: layer dependencies

functions:
    postSource:
        handler: postSource.handler
        name: postSource_${self:provider.stage}
        layers:
            - {Ref: MyappLambdaLayer)

my directory structure is:
/
serverless.yml
postSource.js
layer/nodejs/node8/node_modules/myapp/package.json & index.js

when I deploy, everything seems to work fine, no errors, but when I go to the AWS console, I see “layers (0)” and of course, testing the lambda in console, it wont find the module I created “Cannot find module ‘myapp’”

I am new to the Serverless Framework, so I am sure i missed an obvious step.

Thanks in advance