The One Who Waits

"There are things older than man in these mountains. And they are hungry."Kevin Marsh is seventeen and afraid of nothing. Not since his father died and he became the man of the house, keeping watch over his exhausted waitress mother and his nine-year-old brother Tommy - who has started drawing an antlered figure at his bedroom window. When Daniel Harper becomes the fourteenth child to vanish in Maple Ridge Junction, the town finally understands what the oldest families have always known: something lives in the heights of Pineback Hill. Something patient. Something the Abenaki named only in whispers. Kevin, his two friends, a sheriff carrying an unhealed grief, a Vietnam veteran and a deputy haunted by his own failure will climb into the November mountains with six sticks of dynamite and the first real plan in three centuries. But a creature that outlasted Father Montclair in 1661, a jungle patrol in 1969, and seventeen years of solitary tracking is not buried so easily. A slow-burning supernatural thriller.