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.

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 darkly romantic Corpse Bride retelling in which a cursed, half-dead princess must surrender her still-beating heart to break the curse—before the masked knight sworn to deliver it steals it for himself. In the realm of Riches and Ruin, a curse cast by the fallen Fairy Godmother threatens to...

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 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...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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. 

“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...

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...

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—...

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 ...

Award-winning journalist Jesse Winter takes us on a dangerous and often heroic journey to the frontlines of three Canadian wildfires, introducing readers to firefighters, volunteers and others who are facing the country’s most devastating infernos. In Wild Fire, Jesse Winter takes readers on a...

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.

While the village sleeps, the forest celebrates. A hidden Christmas. A quiet magic. A gift meant to be felt — not seen. Christmas Among the Hidden Folk of Dalberg is a cozy Scandinavian folklore novella about winter, memory, and the unseen kindness that lingers at the edge of the world. Every year, while the villagers light candles, bake bread, and prepare for Christmas Eve, the forest beside them gathers for a celebration of its own. Hidden among snow-heavy spruces, the old folk awaken — the tomtar, the small hidden ones, the forest guardians, and the ancient beings who remember ...

Twelve surveyors vanish from a winter camp in the far north. Their equipment is torn apart. Their tracks end in the snow. Captain Tom Kline leads a search into the wilderness, where the team finds signs of something immense moving beyond the trees. The deeper they travel, the less the route obeys their maps—and the harder it becomes to dismiss the warnings left in their path. Back home, the missing have families waiting for answers. Kline and his companions must decide how far to press the search, what they can bring back, and what it might cost to ignore the place they have entered. The ...

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 ...

Kobe Carrow took over the frozen trap-line at Marrow Creek to pay his debts. He expected nothing more than the biting wind and a few marten pelts. Instead, he finds a forest wiped clean of life and massive bipedal tracks pressed deep into the frozen peat. The local authorities ruled the previous trapper's death an accident, but the broken trees and torn carcasses tell a far more brutal story. The freeze is closing in, and the creek is running red.