Winter Forest

It has been decades since the Magi waged war with the most powerful weapons in the human realm, amulet stones fueled by Elvin souls, each stone more terrible than the last. So what could a sorcerer do if he was able to combine their powers? In order for Prince Tallen to prevail against such a threat he must find out who is stealing Tallenfolk from their beds and secure the help of new allies, assuming he can convince them his purpose is true.

The epic story of the vastly outnumbered platoon that stopped Germany's leading assault in the Ardennes forest and prevented Hitler's most fearsome tanks from overtaking American positions, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Liberator. "A gripping saga about raw courage and...

Cursed Wolf Seventy-five years ago, alpha wolf Rex Winter and his brothers were cursed by a powerful witch. Ever since, they have lived as wolves, only able to shift during the night of the full moon. The only way to break the curse is to claim their fated mates. When Luna Linwood finds out her long-lost grandmother has left her a bookstore in Alaska, she takes a chance, and travels to Fate Island. Dark Wolf Coming to Fate Island was supposed to be a new start. But wolf shifter Damian Winter doesn't believe he has the right to begin again. He may look like a young man, but he is over a ...

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the...

“Smoothly plotted, deftly written, and thought provoking.”—San Diego Union-Tribune When P.I. Stuart Winter investigates the death of an environmental activist in a redwood forest, he encounters a radical ecocommune, a fundamentalist preacher, and a trio of marijuana moguls. "Highly competent mystery-mongering, generously stuffed with red-herrings, subplots, and woodsy background."—Kirkus Reviews “A well-written, excellently paced mystery.”—Rendezvous Reviews “The Forest Prime Evil is an excellent book...You’ll love the mystery.”—Macon Beacon “A fine second outing for...

It’s been a year since Yuki Hirano left home - or more precisely, was booted from it—to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means “courage,” and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He’s adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends—tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.

They thought they were hunting an animal. They were wrong. When structural expert Thatcher Rook arrives at Mount Rushmore to assess stress fractures in the granite, he uncovers a hidden subterranean chamber—and a heavily armed poaching team guarding a terrifying secret. They have captured a juvenile Sasquatch, and its massive, unstoppable parent has come to collect. As a brutal winter storm seals off the monument, Thatcher is trapped in a deadly three-way war on the sheer cliff faces. Caught between ruthless mercenaries and a grieving, nine-foot apex predator with nothing to lose, it ...

In the frozen wilderness, something massive is tracking them. When a routine wilderness expedition veers deep into subzero territory, a team of seasoned guides and trackers finds themselves stranded in an unforgiving frozen wasteland. Cut off from civilization and battling extreme weather, survival alone demands everything they have. Then the true threat emerges from the tree line. A massive, unyielding apex predator—a legend whispered in fear—is watching from the shadows. Methodical, territorial, and deadly, the creature turns the hunter into the hunted, driving the team across ...

A Corpse Bride retelling, in which a cursed princess must surrender her heart to break the curse that half-killed her. In the realm of Riches and Ruin, a curse cast by the fallen Fairy Godmother threatens to rot away everything both kingdoms hold dear--including the one heart capable of ending...

Ruthanne Grebb returned to her father’s remote cabin looking for a quiet life teaching biology and tending her land. She never expected the sudden, bloody disappearance of two local trappers at the frozen stone ford. When she joins the sheriff's search, they uncover big five-toed tracks in the snow and a predatory horror that defies natural science. The freeze is closing in, and the snow is turning red.

The Road Dies Here. When a brutal winter storm traps Ray Colter and his teenage daughter on a remote mountain highway, their only hope for shelter is a weather-beaten ranger outpost. But the strangers huddled inside the freezing cabin are about to discover that the plunging temperatures are the least of their problems. Outside in the blinding white, an ancient, violent war is reigniting. Caught in the middle of a blood feud between a territorial guardian of the peaks and a mimetic, insatiable force driven by pure starvation, the group must fight to outlast the night. As the outpost's walls ...

The forest learned their voices. Now it’s coming for the town. Three weeks after the nightmare at the old mill, Black Pine is still trying to bury what happened in the upper basin. The roads are closed. The woods are marked restricted. The officials have their clean language ready: wildlife incident, public safety, no cause for panic. Then the first snow falls. At the Upper Basin gate, two guards hear a girl crying in the trees. Then a dead man’s voice calls from the dark. By morning, one guard is dead, one is missing, and Staff Sergeant Harlan Mercer knows the truth can’t stay buried...

One missing human, three meddling fairies, and one introverted gnome wrapped up in a cozy fantasy. One gnome's peaceful existence gets complicated... after three sisters involve him in a murder mystery.

A beautiful injured girl. A brutish orc hunter. When they're snowed-in for Christmas, will their forbidden passion be enough to warm cold enemy hearts, or will it prove too hot to handle? RUE: I’m promised to my father’s enemy to pay off his debt. However, I detest Azrael and could never be his bride. I run away into the forest to think, where I fall into a ravine and injure my leg. A giant, green brute of a man finds me. He tells me he tends a reindeer farm and is searching for one of his reindeer who got lost. I’m sure he’s going to kill me. However, instead he takes me to his ...

Four complete books. Twenty-eight peaceful stories. Countless tiny places where bedtime feels warm, quiet, and safe. The Tiny Worlds Collection brings together Books 1–4 of the Goodnight Tiny Worlds series in one comforting bedtime bundle created for children ages 4–6. Inside each story, young listeners will discover a hidden little world preparing for sleep: a snowy burrow tucked beneath the ground, a glowing forest home, a quiet nest near the ocean, or a peaceful nighttime hideaway beneath the stars. Along the way, children will meet rabbits resting beneath soft snow, foxes curling up...

Some secrets should stay buried under the snow. When leaked archival documents reveal the final coordinates of Flight 218—a military transport plane that vanished without a trace in 1945—an expert aviation historian and his elite expedition team venture deep into the Bitterroot Mountains to uncover the truth. What they find is a frozen graveyard, an abandoned underground bunker, and a classified weaponization program that never ended. Trapped by a brutal winter storm, miles from civilization, the team soon realizes they are not alone. A highly intelligent, ancient pack of predators ...

The Snow Queen and the Enchanted Friends A Gentle Bedtime Chapter Book for Kids Ages 3–6 About Forgiveness and Emotional Warmth By JAY MIA When winter’s chill covers the Enchanted Forest, even the stars seem to grow quiet. But when Princess Aurora Daneen and her friends, Uni the Unicorn, Draggy the Dragon, Parroty the Parrot, and Lobsty the Lobster, discover that the Snow Queen’s heart has turned to ice, they set out on a journey to help her remember what warmth feels like. Through glowing candles, kind words, and gentle courage, the friends show that even the coldest heart can thaw ...

Your pulse is a homing beacon. Elena Ruiz thought the blizzard was her biggest problem. A seven-hour drive through the Bitterroot Range ends in a white-out nightmare at Heartpine Lodge, an isolated sanctuary where the geography itself has been twisted into a trap. But something is out there in the storm—something that doesn't hunt by sight or scent. It tracks the subsonic vibration of human terror. As a cardiac nurse, Elena understands the rhythm of life better than anyone. When the carnage starts, she realizes the creature isn't just an animal; it’s a biological predator that feeds on ...

Young Rob Hingley, a citizen of the Galactic Empire, and proud inhabitant of the Imperial Park Planet of New Sherwood, has just graduated. He's a newly minted bookkeeper, about to start his career, just in time to become embroiled in an Imperial Audit. It gets ugly.