Cold Country by JD Salyers
Release date: October 21, 2018
Subgenre: Wilderness thriller, Suspense
About Cold Country:
When a wild and free paradise becomes the devil’s hunting ground…
ALONE IN THE WOODS
Quinn Galloway is in danger. Her husband has disappeared from their secluded cabin, the biggest snowstorm of the season is moving in, and she’s alone in the dangerous expanse of the Appalachian Mountains.OR IS SHE?
There is a dark stranger on the mountain, and he’s set his sights on Quinn. By the time night falls the sweet, cozy cabin has become a snowbound prison, surrounded by plenty of predators. For Quinn Galloway, isolated and defenseless, winter is now the enemy. Over the course of a single spine-chilling night she must face all of her nightmares come true, and she might not make it off the mountain alive.
If you enjoy
great wilderness thriller bestsellers from authors like Darcy Coates and
Dean Koontz, you’ll love Cold Country! Pick up this ebook today!
Excerpt:
Beside
her, Burns barked, a sharp sound that ripped through her thoughts and made her
jump. The coyotes looked up - three of them, that she could see - and Burns
took off. They scattered away from the light and the impending teeth.
Burns,”
she called. He paused, mid-step, but didn't take his eyes off the spot where
the coyotes had been. Her gut wrenched tighter…
Tonight,
there was nobody to go over there for her. There was only her, Quinn, alone in
the dark with two dogs and a fear that she couldn't place.
The
wind caught a few strands of her hair and blew them into her face. She scraped
them away, took a deep breath, and forced herself to take a step. It was a
horrible feeling, just like before. Like she was about to step out of an
airplane, or off a tall bridge. Every nerve ending in her body felt raw, every
brain cell screamed for her to stop.
But
she couldn't stop. She couldn't just walk away and not see.
That
was it - the seeing. She didn't want to, but she was the only one. There was no
one else to do this for her.
She
had to go.
Burns
barked again. He was staring toward the darker woods beyond. She glanced in his
direction and didn't see anything, but she knew that the coyotes hadn't gone
far. If she went inside now, like she so desperately wanted to, they would come
back.
But...come
back to what?
The
gut feeling crawled up into her throat. She choked out a small sob. Retro
nuzzled her hand.
She
forced her legs to move.
The
thin lights from the yard didn't reach quite this far, so the long shadows of
the cedars blended into the woods beyond. For all she knew, there was a ten
story monster behind those cedars, ready to eat her alive. The wind howled
through the thin trees as she approached, bending the tops and making the
thick, sharp needles shudder. She shivered too, cold beyond belief.
Burns
was sniffing around the bottom of the trees. She didn't know why, but she
didn't want him over there. “Stop it. Burns, come.”
He looked
up, looked back at what he was sniffing, and reluctantly trotted her way
through the falling snow.
She
gripped the flashlight and strode forward a few steps, both dogs by her side
again. The flashlight beam jittered with every step and her inner distress
threatened to halt her in her tracks, but she didn't dare think about it and
she didn't dare stop. If she did, she would never start again.
It was
no more than a couple of hundred paces to the cedars, but each one felt like it
took an hour. The snow was piling up so that she kicked it out in front of her
with her toes. It fell and made speckles ahead, like it was showing her the
way.
She
knew the way - she just didn't want to go.
Her
flashlight caught a hint of yellow, and another sob jerked from her throat. Her
feet tried to drag again. If she didn't go forward, she could pretend like she
didn't know….
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About JD Salyer:
JD
Salyers is the pen name for a mother and daughter writing team. Both were born and raised in the beautiful
mountains of West Virginia to a large family of natural story tellers which
shaped their imaginations at a young age.
The Outer Limits, Alfred
Hitchcock and the horror stories of Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub
influence their writing today. Their
stories are the dark and disturbing kind.
The kind that scare the bejeebers out of you, not because they’re
populated with vampires, werewolves and demons, but because these horrific
things could happen to any of us. When
they’re not dreaming up terrifying scenarios for their protagonists, they are
avid quilters, carrying on yet another family tradition.
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