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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 ...

The New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he...

They took a shortcut to save time. Now, they are out of time. When a blinding snowstorm strands four travelers on a forgotten mountain road in the Gallatin Range, their biggest concern is freezing to death. But the rapidly dropping temperature is only the beginning of their nightmare. Cut off from civilization and plunging into absolute darkness, they quickly realize they are not alone in the isolated timberline. Something massive is moving through the trees. Something ancient, patient, and hungry. It builds pale, frozen tunnels between the pines, and it has already claimed the woods. With ...

Something Big Lurks Beneath the Surface Mara Kincaid tracks ghosts through the water. As a sonar specialist, her job is to find what hides in the pitch-black silence of the southern ocean. When the research vessel Valkyrie reaches the edge of a frozen trench, she hears a signal that shouldn't exist. It isn't a whale. It isn't a submarine. Something massive is rising through the ice. Trapped in a polar storm and cut off from the world, the crew realizes they are no longer the observers. They are the prey. Beneath the crushing pressure of the shelf, a leviathan from modern folklore has ...

They survived the crash. But the ice belongs to something else. Nora Averill didn’t want to be on the Osprey Air tour. She just wanted a distraction from her exhausting life. But when their helicopter goes down in a blinding whiteout on a remote Alaskan ice field, Nora and the other stranded passengers find themselves thrust into a brutal fight against freezing temperatures and dwindling supplies. Led by Gideon Cole, a man whose quiet intensity suggests a dangerous past, the group makes a desperate trek toward an abandoned research station. They think finding shelter means they’ve won. ...

The New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he...

An epic, coming-of-age adventure set in a frozen fantasy land of myths and legends. Following the invasion of the frost giants into the northern province of Aeblegarden, Bjorn was taken into the service of Jarl Jun to begin proper training as a warrior. After all, the Giant-Slayer needed to be able to live up to his name... Right? More and more, though, Bjorn began to feel that the title was a mistake, and that he really was just a fisherman from the sea. When the province of Essetoft manages to trick Bjorn and exposes his lack of prowess with a sword, Jarl Jun sends him north to keep him ...