Mountain Myth

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 ...

Every October, the mountain town of Ash Pitch, West Virginia, lights lanterns to keep the Hollow quiet. At the edge of the old strip mine stands a corn-stalk effigy, a glowing miner’s lamp burning in its chest until dawn. Folks say the ritual keeps the balance between the town and whatever stirs in the dark soil. This year, when the lantern is stolen in a Halloween prank, the flame dies—and something wakes. Crows circle but will not land. People start coughing up husks. The effigy collapses in the night. Sara Hale, a local librarian, her retired-miner father, a shaken teenager, and a ...

For some, the only way to possess magic is to steal it from others. Born without magic, Davis is an outcast in his own shapeshifter family. Yearning for his father’s approval, he sets down a path that intertwines with Iris, a girl whose own ambitions are hindered by a mysterious illness. Their quest leads to Yuras, one of California’s smallest towns, unremarkable until they discover a cave of magic-transferring stones. Now they have a chance to change their fates. But they’re not alone.

Darren has settled into life as a vampire's assistant and feels at home in the Cirque du Freak. But now he must leave the freak show and his friends behind. With Mr. Crepsley as a traveling companion, he embarks on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on Vampire Mountain - the vampaneze have been there before them. Will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren's human side or turn him further toward the darkness? Only one thing is certain: Darren's initiation into the vampire clan is more deadly than he can ever have imagined.

When our lives fall apart, we often feel broken, ashamed, and deeply alone. But what if you knew, as you experienced this descent, that it was mapped out in a myth thousands of years old? What if, despite the uniqueness of your own life and experiences, each stage of the process was universal? The journey of descent and rising is the core initiation of the feminine—the heroine’s journey—one traveled by billions of women before you.

"As soon as listeners hear Johnny Heller's easy Western drawl, they'll know they're in for a story about the Old West."—AudioFile The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling...

Step into the Northwoods, where trees stretched taller than steeples, storms cracked louder than cannons, and laughter echoed across the rivers. Here lives Paul Bunyan — the mightiest lumberjack who ever walked the land — and his faithful companion, Babe the Blue Ox. From the moment Paul was born too big for his cradle, to the day he and Babe reshaped rivers, carved valleys, and cooked flapjacks on a griddle the size of a lake, their adventures grew into the tallest tales America has ever told. Taller than the pines, bigger than the mountains, funnier than a flapjack roof, this book ...

An ancient giant has awakened—one whose existence could rewrite the story of mankind. To keep the Nephilim from being captured, exploited, or unleashed upon the world, Heather and her team must escort the colossal being from the mist-shrouded mountains of Uganda to a hidden refuge in Tajikistan. But earning the trust of something that belongs more to legend than to history is no small task—and protecting it is even harder. Dustin “Cowboy” McCord holds the team together as bullets, exhaustion, and fear push them to the breaking point. Every step of their journey is shadowed by the ...

Caleb and Jenna Rourke are driving through the pitch-black mountains when their navigation fails entirely. They stumble upon Gallow's End, an isolated settlement that does not appear on any map. What begins as a simple search for a landline and a safe place to wait out the night quickly devolves into a desperate struggle to stay alive. The terrifying silence of the empty streets remains unbroken until the massive iron bell in the decaying church tower begins to toll. The couple soon discovers the horrifying history of the mining collapse that buried dozens of men alive beneath the very ...

Twins Willow and Jake Grimm are not prepared for the bizarre gadgets and scary changes in their new home of New Marburg, the location of the top-secret Think Tank where their parents now have jobs as scientists. In this town, people jetpack to work, robots direct traffic, and senior citizens duel with laser swords. Yet nothing compares to what happens the day after lightning strikes the twins’ house. Their school building transforms around them, becoming a medieval castle—complete with moat, drawbridge, and a dangerous giant who looks strangely like the school’s overly aggressive hall monitor.

Something was buried in the ice. Now it’s awake. Cole Maddox knows the mountains. As a wilderness guide, he respects the cold, the terrain, and the storms. But he has never seen anything like the facility hidden in the deep valley of the Timberline. Hired to escort a team of investors and scientists into the frozen wild, Cole thinks it’s just another high-paying babysitting job. He’s wrong. Inside the compound, a disgraced geneticist has achieved the impossible. He hasn’t just cloned a fossil; he has resurrected an apex predator that evolution tried to erase. A hunter designed for ...

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 ...

Some things in the woods only look natural. Blake Ellison and her teenage daughter, Priscilla, desperately needed a quiet weekend away to mend their fractured relationship. But deep in the freezing mountain foothills, their retreat shatters when a towering, unnatural beast forces their truck off the pavement and into the dark. Stranded in the remote wilderness, they are hunted by a predator that should not exist—a terrifying aberration that mimics human voices, weaponizes their deepest traumas, and refuses to let them leave. What begins as a desperate attempt to fix their family becomes a...

Some legends aren't meant to be found. Some are meant to stay buried in the dark. Nora Vance was looking for the perfect upload. As an investigative content creator with a dying channel, she needed a viral hit. The remote, isolated town of Black Hollow promised local folklore and cheap clicks. But the town is hiding a secret older than the mountains. When dusk falls, the valley becomes a warzone between two ancient, warring species. On the high timber ridge, an aggressive pack of apex predators guards the perimeter. Deep beneath the earth, something colder, paler, and infinitely hungrier is...

The silence was the first offense. For seasoned hunter Lars Eriksen, the mountains of Norway have always spoken—a language of wind, wildlife, and ancient pines. But when an unnatural quiet falls, it heralds a horror beyond comprehension. A prize elk hunt becomes a desperate flight for his life from a creature of impossible scale, a legend torn from the darkest pages of folklore . Disgraced cryptozoologist Dr. Alex Mercer, his career in ruins, is drawn to the remote valley by a garbled, terrifying radio transmission . He seeks a rare predator, a scientific discovery that could salvage his ...

Is Bigfoot real? Or is it the greatest unsolved mystery of our time? Step into the shadowy forests, global folklore, and startling eyewitness accounts that fuel one of the most captivating legends in human history. BIGFOOT: Tracks, Tales, and Truths Revealed is your ultimate guide to the world of Sasquatch—blending ancient myths, cutting-edge science, global sightings, and controversial evidence into a gripping expedition across time and continents. This book pulls no punches—it’s a deep dive into the legends, the sightings, the science, the hoaxes, and the hard questions that ...

‘Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland’ Cameron McNeish, The Herald Rising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland’s Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines...

Alone in the Rocky Mountains, at the mercy of its magicks, Vanessa may have made her final mistake. Vanessa Araya is not hiding! She’s trying to find herself after the terror of being kidnapped six months ago. Who is she when her trust in people has been stripped away? How can she be free and brave and in love with life when a little part of her is always looking over her shoulder? Being the daughter of a billionaire hurts in unique ways. Seth Bentham fell for Vanessa three years ago, and walked away. He’s a wizard mercenary: lethal, magical and in deep in a dangerous world. He would ...

The ghoul should have stayed buried. Don't miss this haunting, modern gothic romance. Major Dean Fortescue, JAG lawyer and former Marine, enters the Southern Appalachian Mountains to find his aunt, who has gone missing. He discovers her house burned down, a ghoul in residence, and a mysterious woman who claims to control the weather. Beulah Morgan is a weathermage, home after months away on a scientific research vessel in the Southern Ocean. When her mountain retreat is invaded by death magic, old memories resurface and with them a chilling terror. Children will die unless Beulah trusts ...

Daniel McCarter never asked to be a hero. He just wanted his grandpa back. Now he's lost in a world fueled by imagination. One minute, he's rummaging through Grandpa's keepsakes with his little sister Alex and snarky cousin Brent. The next, they're tumbling into a realm where giants farm impossible crops, werecat ladies stalk the forest, and the villainous Dadnabbers kidnap children to power their secret factory hidden deep in the Smokies. To find his way home, Daniel must master something he never knew he'd inherited: Grandpa's gift as a Story Weaver, someone whose words can reshape ...