Wilderness Tracking

Deep Waters Hide Dark Secrets. The American South is renowned for its sweeping landscapes, sun-drenched coastlines, and thick, untamed wetlands. But beneath the scenic beauty of these blackwater bayous, mangrove forests, and coastal flatlands lies a shifting, treacherous terrain that has long been weaponized by the nation's most ruthless predators. In this gripping non-fiction anthology, journey deep into the shadows of the southern wilderness to uncover twenty of the most chilling, dynamic, and historic criminal investigations ever recorded. From the quiet mist of Lake Seminole to the ...

The full moon has risen. The real hunt has just begun. Walt Bearden thought the worst was behind him. He survived the corporate siege on his fortified cabin and rescued Eli from the ashes. Now they are pushing deep into the uncharted Montana high country. They need shelter and they need time because the full moon is hours away and Eli is about to experience his first complete transformation. But Gene-Syte Consolidated does not walk away from a highly valuable biological asset. Commander Elena Garcia has arrived with a heavily armed tactical squad. They have thermal optics. They have heavy ...

The wilderness is silent for a reason. For generations, experienced outdoorsmen have operated under a comforting assumption: they know exactly what lives in the deep timber. They know the sounds, the tracks, and the behavior of every predator in North America. But what happens when that knowledge fails? What happens when a seasoned bowman is stalked by a massive, bipedal shadow, or a competitive tracking dog handler is forced out of the flooded swamps by something intelligent, aggressive, and terrifyingly real? BIGFOOT: Hunters in the Woods strips away the rumors and delivers 20 harrowing, ...

They went looking for a missing girl. They found something else. Twelve-year-old Lily Mercer vanished into the deep timber of the Pacific Northwest. When a specialized tracking team answers the call, they expect to find a lost child frightened by the dark. Instead, they find a trail of impossible footprints, a campsite torn apart by staggering force, and the crushing realization that they are no longer the hunters. As night falls over the remote mountain ridge, the operation transforms into a desperate fight to stay alive. The isolated timberline hides an intelligent, relentless apex ...

The smoke found him before the memory did. Brian Timothy survived the Juniper Creek fire, but the blaze took his crew and his peace of mind. He retreats to the deep redwoods of Northern California to escape his past. The isolation is exactly what he needs until he finds the footprint. Eighteen inches long and pressed deep into the mud of a protected sanctuary. When a corrupt logging operation moves in to illegally harvest the old growth, they awaken something ancient and territorial. The giant beast does not tolerate intruders. Soon, the loggers start a massive forest fire to cover their ...

In the autumn of 1967, five heavily armed men ventured into the dense, fog-choked forests of Northern California. They thought they were hunting a legend. They were wrong. The peaceful giant they sought wasn't a discovery—it was a decoy. When the tracking expedition is ambushed in the remote wilderness, the hunters quickly realize they have stepped into a highly evolved trap. Stalked by an intelligent, hyper-violent apex predator that uses the famous myth as camouflage, the group is systematically torn apart. To survive the suffocating silence of the ancient redwoods, they must fight ...

Deep in the North Ridge Valley, some secrets are better left buried. Steve is a Wilderness Response ranger who has seen it all, but an anonymous tip about illegal poaching leads him into a restricted zone where the rules of nature no longer apply. Lena is a determined wildlife photographer chasing the shot of a lifetime, unaware that she is about to become the prey. When a brutal flash flood traps them in a "dead zone" of magnetic interference and impenetrable timber, they realize they aren't just fighting the elements. A team of ruthless mercenaries is hunting a legend, and they won't ...

Something is watching from the tree line. Deep in the isolated stretches of the wilderness, there are places where the trails end and the dense, old-growth timber begins. In these remote shadows, hikers, hunters, and isolated residents have come face-to-face with an apex predator that defies conventional science. From the brutal, night-long bombardment of a remote mining cabin to a terrified community forced to abandon their homes along a rugged coastline, this collection unearths chilling, documented accounts of creatures that walk upright, hunt in the dark, and leave nothing behind but ...

Nature always fights back. Blackridge Summit Resort is expanding, and management refuses to let a forecasted snowstorm or wildlife warnings delay their multimillion-dollar schedule. They order the explosives detonated on the upper ridge to clear the way. The resulting blast triggers a catastrophic slide that buries the ski lift, crushes the communications tower, and leaves hundreds of guests trapped in a freezing, powerless hotel. But the detonators did not just break the snowpack. They collapsed the roof of an ancient, hidden cave system, exposing a den that has belonged to a clan of ...

Anthony- and Edgar-award nominated author Paul Doiron delivers another "masterpiece of high-octane narrative" (Booklist) with Bad Little Falls, his newest harrowing thriller about the hunt for a murderer at the height of a major snowstorm. Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been sent into exile...

Massacre Pond is Edgar finalist Paul Doiron's superb new novel featuring Game Warden Mike Bowditch and a beautiful, enigmatic woman whose mission to save the Maine wilderness may have incited a murder On an unseasonably hot October morning, Bowditch is called to the scene of a bizarre crime: the...

The perimeter was supposed to keep the nightmare contained. It failed. Deep in the Pacific Northwest, a federal quarantine zone surrounds the ruins of the Blackwater Ridge research facility. Deputy Cal Renner patrols the logging roads, enforcing a quiet isolation. He expects bored soldiers and restless locals. He does not expect to find a massive, unidentifiable kill cached twelve feet up in the canopy of an old growth cedar. Mara Keene survived the initial outbreak by fleeing into the timber. Now she carries the stolen data detailing the genetic resurrection program that started it all. ...

"Narrator Henry Leyva keeps listeners on the edge of their seats with his delivery of a story with more murder suspects than Maine has pine trees...This is an excellent, chilling story and performance." — AudioFile Magazine on The Precipice "[Henry Leyva's] understated performance makes even...

Safety is an agreement between you and the wilderness. And the wilderness did not sign. You lock the door. You pull the curtain. You tell yourself the roof is strong and the forest outside is just forest. But every campfire story begins with the same lie: you are safe in here. This collection details documented, firsthand reports of ordinary people who woke up to heavy bipedal footsteps, shattered doors, and deafening screams in the dead of night. Stripped of myth and grounded in terrifying reality, these accounts explore what happens when the boundary between human shelter and the unknown ...

A routine mining detonation in the remote Sonoran Desert shatters the canyon floor to reveal a gateway into a terrifying past. Paleontologist Nora Calder and a heavily armed corporate security team descend into a massive sealed subterranean world. They anticipate finding ancient trace fossils and silent geological wonders. Instead they are immediately thrust into a brutal Mesozoic ecosystem ruled by ferocious apex predators that hunt with terrifying intelligence. Trapped deep beneath the earth with their only exit compromised, the survivors must fight their way through a hostile jungle ...

"Narrator Henry Leyva keeps listeners on the edge of their seats with his delivery of a story with more murder suspects than Maine has pine trees." — AudioFile Magazine on The Precipice In Paul Doiron's Stay Hidden, a supposed hunting accident becomes a dangerously complicated murder...

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled war veteran in an apparent case of "suicide by cop," he begins having second thoughts...

The fences are down. The storm is raging. And every time the baby cries, the predators close in. Disgraced combat medic Nate Calder is stranded on Isla Corta, a flooded research preserve overrun by genetically engineered nightmares. When a catastrophic landslide destroys the evacuation convoy, Nate pulls a four-month-old infant from the wreckage. His only mission: carry the child twelve miles through the deadliest jungle on Earth to the last extraction chopper. Mara Ellison, a brilliant geneticist desperate to find her missing daughter, is tracking their footprints through the dark. But she...

The official report blamed exposure for Brooke's disappearance. The nineteen-inch footprints told a different story. Armed with her sister's cryptic journal, Leanna leads a desperate expedition deep into the unforgiving wilderness of Colter's Gap. She expects to find answers. Instead, she leads her team straight into a hunting ground. Something massive is stalking them through the old-growth forest. It watches through their cameras. It leaves territorial markers in the trees. And terrifyingly, it mimics the voices of the lost to lure searchers into the dark. Trapped in a burning valley, ...

Three friends went into the woods. Only one understood the rules. Evan wanted an off-grid expedition to prove a point. Matt wanted to escape his own failures. Kara just wanted to keep the peace. But when their hike leads them miles off the marked trail and deep into an ancient, silent expanse of forest, they realize too late that they have crossed a boundary. Something is pacing them from the tree line. Something massive, territorial, and operating with a flat, unwavering certainty. As their supplies dwindle and the panic sets in, the group is relentlessly hunted by an apex predator that ...