Winter Wilderness

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 historic blizzard was supposed to be the worst of it. Then the electrical grid went completely black. Former search-and-rescue pilot David Rourke is trapped in a remote mountain lodge when a devastating cyberattack wipes out power and communications across the nation. As temperatures plummet dangerously below zero, the freezing guests must rely on David to navigate the brutal elements. But the freezing cold is only the first danger. Desperate men are converging on the lodge, led by someone willing to kill to secure resources for his own people. They will breach the walls by any means ...

Recently separated from her cheating husband and unaware of a budding pregnancy, Georgia Charles travels to the Yukon Territory to spend a month with a childhood friend. Suddenly kidnapped by bank robbers, she manages to flee into the wild and find shelter in an abandoned cabin - but minimal skills and an impending childbirth threaten her survival. Set in the harsh winter of British Columbia’s Last Frontier, Winter’s Captive is the riveting story of a woman’s incredible journey of survival and path to empowerment against all odds.

Survival is a science. Until the science breaks.Ryan Hollingsworth is a master of the Canadian backcountry. When a lethal Category 4 blizzard traps him thirty miles off the grid in the Mount Robson wilderness, he doesn't panic—he calculates. Seeking shelter in an isolated timber cabin, he finds a raving, paranoid hermit barricading the doors against a monster he claims "tracks the isolated." Ryan dismisses it as drug-induced cabin fever.Then the roaring fire in the iron stove instantly dies, and the ambient temperature drops to absolute zero.The thing that violently breaches the cabin ...

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 ...

Crystal Rainey is aghast when she realizes her New Year's resolutions haven't changed one whit from the previous year. Wanting to escape a future as dreary as a Pacific Northwest winter, she walks out on her dead-end office job, despite her tenuous savings account. Stumbling across a job opening posted by a wilderness guide outfit, an intrigued Crystal bluffs her way into the position. With her handsome fellow guide, the stalwart Conner Oakes, she leads a corporate retreat on a snowshoe hike to a majestic alpine chalet.

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 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 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 ...

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...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...

They were built to be the ultimate apex predators. Now, they are hunting the hunters. When a devastating winter storm traps an elite security convoy in the remote Bitterroot Range, their mission turns from a simple extraction to a desperate fight for their lives. Wade Morrow and his team of hardened military contractors are heavily armed and highly trained, but they are completely unprepared for what is waiting for them in the blinding whiteout. A genetically resurrected pack of prehistoric hunters has claimed the mountains. They are massive, intelligent, and possess a tactical cunning that...

They came to the forest to capture a weapon. They just became prey. Cole Marsden thought the blood was finally washed from his hands. Deep in the remote Whispering Peaks National Forest, the cursed ranger lives a life of brutal isolation, guarding the woods and hiding the beast within. But his sanctuary is shattered when a heavily armed private military team descends upon the mountains. Funded by a shadowy biotech corporation, Commander Devon Baker and his elite mercenaries aren't here to hunt animals. They are tracking a highly classified biological asset. Armed with thermal drones, sonic ...

The ice is breaking. The apex predators are starving. And the storm of the decade has arrived. Nineteen years of roaming the frozen northern coastline taught the old polar bear every sign of danger. But he has never faced the scent now drifting from the treeline. A massive grizzly, driven out of his natural range by hunger and shifting climates, has entered the frozen wastes. Caught in the crosshairs of this unnatural collision is a remote scientific research outpost. Theresa, Jonah, and Anik have front row seats to the changing ecosystem. When a catastrophic blizzard buries their compound,...

Some secrets refuse to stay buried, even when the ground is frozen solid. Nature can be a pristine sanctuary or a brutal accomplice. In this gripping anthology, the harshest winter environments play a central role in some of the most baffling and chilling investigations in history. From remote mountain passes to quiet suburban streets buried under sudden blizzards, extreme weather has a unique way of freezing time, concealing tracks, and preserving vital evidence that waits decades to be uncovered. Journey through a meticulously researched collection of harrowing accounts where plunging ...

Not every hunger belongs to the living. For Sarah Gallagher, an isolated trek deep into the Eastern Rockies is not a vacation; it is a proof of concept. Surrounded by ultralight gear, satellite uplinks, and calibrated environmental sensors, she has built an impenetrable, high-tech shield against a chaotic world. She is a closed system. Safe. Invulnerable. Until the ambient temperature drops to negative fifteen degrees in a matter of seconds. Trapped alone near a remote glacial lake, Sarah's camp is assaulted by an unnatural, localized winter and the suffocating stench of an open grave. ...

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 ...