Winter Wilderness

In Bellwether, the monsters were locked in the basement. In Garrick’s Hollow, they run the town. Forensic psychologist Dr. Maeve Alder thought she had survived the worst. Three weeks after a catastrophic mill fire exposed her family’s two-hundred-year-old genetic curse, Maeve travels deep into the unmapped mountains of West Virginia. Her goal: find the original source of the mutation and secure a permanent cure for her newly infected, nineteen-year-old nephew, Ferris. But the isolated settlement of Garrick’s Hollow isn't a ruin. It is a thriving, rigidly hierarchical community of apex...

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 orc in the cave is supposed to be her enemy. Unfortunately, he's dying. Sarcastic healer Ember escapes a band of raiders only to find herself trapped by a brutal mountain blizzard with seven feet of scarred, feverish orc warrior. Thane has spent five years alone, convinced he's exactly the monster everyone believes him to be. Then a tiny human with gentle hands, terrible jokes, and absolutely no fear of him decides he's worth saving. The storm leaves them nowhere to go. One cave. One fire. Shared furs against the freezing cold. And far too much time to discover that the enemy they've ...

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 ...

In the Yukon, minus forty degrees is a blessing. It keeps the dead frozen solid. For five years, tracker Magnus Lindqvist has survived the apocalypse through brutal isolation, relying on the winter freeze to lock the infected in the ice. Until an early spring brings the sound he dreads most: the steady drip of melting snow. As thousands of starving corpses thaw across the waking tundra, Magnus crosses paths with Alasie and her twelve-year-old daughter, Naja, who are fleeing a predator far worse than the dead. Going against every survival instinct he has left, Magnus intervenes. With his ...

In the depths of a frigid Alaskan winter lies a tale of greed, rivalry, and the chilling pursuit of truth. Aurora ‘Rory’ Darling thought she’d left behind the ghosts of her past when she parted ways with her estranged father. But as the winter mining season looms on the desolate Alaskan horizon, her old life comes crashing back when her father launches a rival ice dredging operation with her criminal ex-boyfriend. A fortune lies buried beneath the treacherous ice – and the clock is ticking. As tempers flare amid the bitter chill, it quickly becomes clear that their battle for 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 ...

The river doesn’t lie. It just takes. A father and two children vanished from a riverside cabin during the worst flood in a decade. The Queets is at glacial flood stage. The cabin is half-submerged. The mother, Maiken Sund, was in Seattle for work when the call came. Search teams have been on the water for twelve hours and recovered nothing but a child’s shoe in a debris snag downstream. The Park Service is calling it a tragedy. Kate Soren is calling it something else. Eight months on the Olympic Peninsula, two cases behind her, and Kate has learned to trust the chemistry the rain ...

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 ...

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 next BRAND NEW instalment in the hig-octane Dane Winter thrillers from Sam Cogley. If you like Lee Child, Robert Ludlum and Vince Flynn, this is for you! In the snow, everyone leaves a trail… even the dead. When his former brother in arms PI Nicolas Buxton asks for his help on a case...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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....