Growls in the Dark - Paperback

by Brody Wertman (Author)

Wes Keen signed up for solitude, not shredded corpses.

After six years as an Army medic and a brief, soul-sucking stint as a NYC paramedic, Wes escapes to the remote wilderness of Land Between the Lakes as a seasonal park ranger. He's looking for peace, quiet, and maybe a little time to forget. What he gets instead is blood on the trail, missing hikers, and claw marks that don't match anything in the field guide.

Joined by Alicia Murphy, a no-nonsense former cop, and Bob Newlin, a perpetually stoned philosopher who may or may not be legally employed, Wes is dragged into a deadly mystery lurking in the trees. The deeper they investigate, the worse it gets-something unnatural is stalking the woods. Something smart. Something savage.

And when they manage to kill one of the creatures and recover the body, their problems multiply. Black helicopters. Armed agents. A kill team sent to erase every trace-starting with them.

Outgunned, outnumbered, and surrounded, Wes and his crew barricade themselves in the ranger station for one long, violent night. If they want to survive-and if they want the truth to reach the outside world-they'll need to outthink both monsters and men.

There are no reinforcements coming. There's no cavalry. There's just a sarcastic ex-medic, a pissed-off ranger, a paranoid retiree, and a stoned guy with a shotgun named Betty Boom Boom.

And they're all that stands between a forest full of nightmares... and a truth that was never meant to be uncovered.

Growls in the Dark is a fast-paced cryptid horror thriller filled with dark humor, brutal tension, and characters you'll wish were real-until the screaming starts. Perfect for fans of The Ritual, Hunter Shea, Mark Tufo, and anyone who's ever looked at the woods at night and thought, "Nope."