Winter Wilderness

When an arctic freeze locks the Olympic Peninsula in ice, something enormous comes down from the mountains—and begins feeding along the coast. Sixty-two-year-old crab fisherman Walt Brannock knows the waters around Morrow’s Reach better than anyone. But when his steel crab traps are crushed, bait cages ripped from their welds, and twenty-inch footprints emerge from the freezing surf, Walt realizes something has claimed the estuary. Fish and Wildlife warden Nell Calder expects a rational explanation. Instead, she discovers impossible tracks, unidentified hair, shattered animal remains, ...

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 ...

A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror. It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy...

The mountain buries its secrets under four feet of powder. This winter, one of them surfaces. January in Elk Creek is a different world — the ski season crowds flooding in, the cold settling into the bones of the valley, and the trails going silent under snowpack. When an avalanche on the north face of Ridgeline Mountain reveals a body that was never meant to be found, Gemma and Kira are called to confirm what the snow has uncovered. What looks like an accident turns into something much darker. Nathan Cole was an IT manager at the Elk Creek Ski Area. He was also running a quiet blackmail ...

The blizzard trapped them. The beast is already inside. For two centuries, the founding families of Bellwether have hidden a terrifying biological curse. Every few generations, a resident transforms into something unspeakable. Their solution? Lock the afflicted in an underground concrete cell until the snow melts. Forensic psychologist Dr. Maeve Alder returns to clear out her late father's estate, only to discover her nineteen-year-old nephew is currently chained in the subterranean dark. But Bellwether’s cruel system is about to fail. A rogue doctor has secretly infected an outsider, ...

The storm didn't bring the cold. The cold brought the monster. June in the Sierra Nevada should be clear skies and dry granite. Instead, a sudden, freak arctic blizzard slams into Sable Pass, burying the mountain highway under thirty inches of zero-visibility whiteout and trapping dozens of summer travelers. Former search-and-rescue specialist Jonah Reed knows these peaks don't forgive mistakes. But as the temperature plunges, he realizes the snow is the least of their worries. The roadblock isn't an accident. The communications blackout isn't the weather. They have been deliberately herded...

Some family secrets should stay buried. Others will tear you apart. Darcy Bellweather hasn't returned to her family's isolated farmhouse in fifteen years. She intends to clean out her late grandmother’s estate, sell the property, and escape back to civilization. But Maude left behind more than dusty antiques. Taped inside a kitchen cabinet is a handwritten list of three strict rules: Keep the porch light burning after sunset. Never cut the white tree beside the creek. Every Sunday night, leave a bowl of milk beneath it. Darcy assumes it’s the harmless superstition of a grieving mind—...

In the Arctic, the storm does not have to enter the building to get inside you. Base Polaris was built to survive the worst Alaska could throw at it. Cold. Isolation. Whiteout conditions. Weeks in which the outside world feels impossibly far away. Mara Voss arrives at the remote research station prepared for all of them. Then the pressure begins falling. The weather closes in faster than expected. And someone disappears. At first, the explanations are practical. Equipment fails in extreme cold. People make bad decisions under pressure. Visibility disappears. Radio communication becomes ...

I never believed I’d see my daughter again. Until a mysterious girl arrives at my door in the middle of a snowstorm. My five-year-old daughter Riley disappeared from a playground ten years ago, moments after I opened a cryptic letter from what the police believed was a deranged fan. In the aftermath of Riley’s disappearance, I tried to create a safe place for myself. I live alone in a secluded cabin in Montana, writing horror novels and hiking with my dog. Until Miranda knocks on my door, half frozen, telling me an unbelievable story. There is no reason for a young girl to be out in a ...

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of adventure and a modern-day Walden, this contemporary classic established Fromm as one of the West's premier voices.

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 ...

From Lisa Ann Verge, RITA-nominated author of romantic, adventurous, historical novels "An absorbing, exciting romantic adventure!" --RT Book Reviews "Lisa Ann Verge breathes fresh life into the romance genre." -- Affaire de Coeur Struggling to survive on the streets of Paris, Genevieve agrees to a dangerous masquerade: She switches places with a King’s Girl, a young noblewoman about to be shipped to the colonies. It’s a risky venture with a high price—once overseas, Genny must marry a stranger....

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...

The war for Shadow Basin didn't end. It just brought deadlier hunters. Tony Ward and Sloane Sterling fought tooth and nail to turn the frozen peaks of the Beartooth Mountains into a protected sanctuary. But a multi-billion-dollar conservation easement means nothing to a black-market bio-acquisition team. When the first blizzard of the season rolls into the basin, it brings a highly funded, off-the-books extraction squad. They aren't local poachers. Equipped with military-grade tranquilizers, thermal optics, and titanium containment cages, they have one objective: capture the apex predator ...

I spent my whole life hiding what I was. Then the men with silver bullets came for me anyway. I translate at a trading post at the edge of Siberia. Russian, Evenki, Buryat, whatever walks through the door. My father raised me to be useful and invisible. Don’t let anyone see how sharp your ears are. Don’t let anyone notice you smell fear on a liar. Don’t ask why you dream of running through snow on four legs. The iron hunt didn’t care about my hiding. They came looking for wolf-blooded people, and my father put a journal in my hands and told me to run. I fled into the frozen taiga ...

In Briar Hollow, love isn’t just in the air—it’s on the menu. Evan Hale thought a Valentine’s weekend at the Grand Lodge would be the perfect setting to propose to Sophie . He expected rustic charm, firelight, and a memory to last a lifetime. He didn't expect the heavy iron bands on the doors, the lines of salt on the thresholds, or the local "customs" that feel more like a siege. When a historic blizzard seals the mountain pass, the town’s festive crimson lights take on a more sinister glow . Evan and Sophie soon realize the "Most Romantic Town in America" is a carefully ...

For twenty years, Nathan Hale has lived in self-imposed exile, trading the complications of the human world for the brutal simplicity of a high-altitude cabin. He has hardened his heart against his past, believing that absolute isolation is the only way to survive. But on the night of a historic blizzard, the silence of the wilderness is broken. As the snow buries the peak, Nathan is stalked by three entities that defy the laws of nature. From the ancient, skeletal warnings of a Stag-Man to the grounding, earthen presence of a massive Sasquatch, the forest has come to judge him. But as ...

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 ...

Cold Branch is a remote mountain valley, cut off and forgotten—until a construction project disturbs something buried deep in the wilderness. A survey crew goes missing. No calls. No bodies. Just blood where it shouldn’t be. Detective Vera Nabb is sent in expecting a straightforward case in a small town no one cares about. The deeper they search, the less it feels like a missing-person investigation—and the more it feels like something is watching from the tree line, waiting for them to get lost. Then the storm rolls in, and the valley shuts down completely. No way out. No backup. And...

The silver didn’t kill him. But the cold might. Caleb is a ghost, walking the dark edges of America to keep the beast inside him hidden. But his last fight left him broken. Poisoned by toxic buckshot and stripped of his healing, Caleb needs a place to recover. He takes an off-the-books job at Ironridge, an isolated, high-altitude mining outpost shutting down for the season. The grueling work and absolute isolation are exactly what he needs. Then the storm of the century hits. Trapped in a historic blizzard miles from civilization, the skeleton crew loses radio contact, power, and their ...