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BRODY WERTMAN
Growls in the Dark
Growls in the Dark
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They came for peace and quiet. What they found was hell in the trees.
Wes Keen isn't running from his past—he just prefers to leave it heavily sedated and buried beneath sarcasm, sarcasm, and the occasional bad decision. After six years as an Army combat medic and a brief, ill-advised stint as a paramedic in New York City, Wes trades chaos for quiet, taking a seasonal ranger job in the sprawling wilderness of Land Between the Lakes.
He gets solitude. He gets fresh air. He even gets a stoner sidekick with a shotgun named Betty Boom Boom.
What he doesn't get is normal.
When a hiker disappears near Pine Hollow Ridge, the incident seems like just another routine rescue—until they find what's left of him. Shredded remains. Massive claw marks. No clear explanation. As more bodies surface and strange noises echo through the trees, Wes and his team realize they're not dealing with a bear, a cougar, or anything that should exist.
Something is hunting in the woods.
With Alicia Murphy—a no-nonsense former Dallas cop—and Bob Newlin—a philosophizing pothead with a talent for trouble—Wes dives into an investigation that uncovers more than he bargained for. Black helicopters. Government silence. And a creature that shouldn't be real. When the team recovers a body and evidence too damning to bury, they become the target of a kill team sent to erase the truth—permanently.
Trapped, outgunned, and under siege in their own station, Wes and his ragtag crew must survive the night, expose the cover-up, and face the monsters—both in the trees and in the suits.
Growls in the Dark is a gritty, fast-paced cryptid horror thriller packed with razor-sharp humor, brutal suspense, and characters who feel like real people trying to stay alive in a world unraveling at the edges. If you like survival horror, dark government secrets, and reluctant heroes who fight like hell and joke through the pain, this book is for you.
Somewhere deep in the woods, something is waiting. And it doesn't care about your jurisdiction.
Wes Keen isn't running from his past—he just prefers to leave it heavily sedated and buried beneath sarcasm, sarcasm, and the occasional bad decision. After six years as an Army combat medic and a brief, ill-advised stint as a paramedic in New York City, Wes trades chaos for quiet, taking a seasonal ranger job in the sprawling wilderness of Land Between the Lakes.
He gets solitude. He gets fresh air. He even gets a stoner sidekick with a shotgun named Betty Boom Boom.
What he doesn't get is normal.
When a hiker disappears near Pine Hollow Ridge, the incident seems like just another routine rescue—until they find what's left of him. Shredded remains. Massive claw marks. No clear explanation. As more bodies surface and strange noises echo through the trees, Wes and his team realize they're not dealing with a bear, a cougar, or anything that should exist.
Something is hunting in the woods.
With Alicia Murphy—a no-nonsense former Dallas cop—and Bob Newlin—a philosophizing pothead with a talent for trouble—Wes dives into an investigation that uncovers more than he bargained for. Black helicopters. Government silence. And a creature that shouldn't be real. When the team recovers a body and evidence too damning to bury, they become the target of a kill team sent to erase the truth—permanently.
Trapped, outgunned, and under siege in their own station, Wes and his ragtag crew must survive the night, expose the cover-up, and face the monsters—both in the trees and in the suits.
Growls in the Dark is a gritty, fast-paced cryptid horror thriller packed with razor-sharp humor, brutal suspense, and characters who feel like real people trying to stay alive in a world unraveling at the edges. If you like survival horror, dark government secrets, and reluctant heroes who fight like hell and joke through the pain, this book is for you.
Somewhere deep in the woods, something is waiting. And it doesn't care about your jurisdiction.
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