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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

In Briar Hollow, love isn’t just in the air—it’s on the menu. Evan Hale thought a Valentine’s weekend at the Grand Lodge would be the perfect setting to propose to Sophie . He expected rustic charm, firelight, and a memory to last a lifetime. He didn't expect the heavy iron bands on the doors, the lines of salt on the thresholds, or the local "customs" that feel more like a siege. When a historic blizzard seals the mountain pass, the town’s festive crimson lights take on a more sinister glow . Evan and Sophie soon realize the "Most Romantic Town in America" is a carefully ...

Returning to Alaska was never part of the plan, but I can’t walk away when my gran’s beloved bed and breakfast is crumbling before my eyes. Sticking around definitely has NOTHING to do with the smoking hot firefighter renting my parents’ guesthouse. (Especially not when I get to watch him paint shirtless). He’s got a hard candy shell, but I’m determined to tease him until I crack it. Pretty soon he’s chasing me through the hotel and straddling me on a bed to get his revenge… Not that it leads anywhere good, because West has the self-control of a monk. Sigh. He says it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...