Book Description

Forest Service ranger Maya Cross finds something in the wilderness that shouldn't be there. A track. Then another. Then evidence of something massive moving through the deep timber of the Pacific Northwest?something that doesn't match any known species, something that shouldn't exist.

When she reports her findings, the response is immediate and wrong. Federal agents arrive. Official stories shift. People who ask questions disappear into classified custody. And Maya realizes that someone powerful has been waiting for exactly what she's discovered?and they will do anything to control the narrative.

But the thing in the forest is still moving. Still learning. Still getting closer to the places where people live.

Caught between a federal operation determined to contain the truth and whatever is moving through the wilderness at night, Maya must decide: Keep quiet and let others control the story. Or risk everything to expose what's really happening in the dark timber.