Stonepine

Seven months ago, Jessica Mitchell's father vanished in the Stonepine Wilderness.

They found his camp exactly as he left it. Nothing taken. Nothing disturbed. His rifle was lying on the ground, spent casings scattered around it.

No blood. No body.

He was a former paratrooper and a lifelong hunter who knew that country better than anyone alive. And something took him without a trace.

Jessica is going back to find him. Seven months is a long time to hold on to hope, but it is all she has left of him, and she is not ready to let it go.

From her first night in the wilderness, something begins to follow her. Something huge. Something patient. The locals tell a story about these woods, about a thing that has many names.

And Jessica is not the only one searching. Deep in the backcountry, armed men guard a site that appears on no map. They know more than they say. And everything they tell her is a lie. Someone is working very hard to keep it hidden.

Jessica came looking for her father. Whatever took him is not finished.

Stonepine is a lean, relentless cryptid creature horror with a vein of conspiracy running through it, the kind of book you start after dinner and finish before you sleep.