Wes Keen Growls in the Dark

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."