Order the paperback or eBook here! Released November 21, 2023.

A night alone in the mountains. A crippling injury. A hungry and deadly creature.

When Taryn promised to scatter her wife’s ashes at an alpine lake in the Sawtooth Mountains, she expected an easy out-and-back hike. What she gets is anything but.

It starts when she spots a human bone in the lake. Then there’s a howling in the woods. But when Taryn sees something unexplainable moving across the river, she knows she’s in danger. This thing is stalking her. Watching and waiting.

A clumsy fall leaves Taryn injured and easy prey. Now she’s alone. Injured. Out of time.

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A lifelong PNW girl, Steph currently lives in Boise, Idaho, with her husband and their two teens. Her short fiction appears in Dark Matter Presents: Human Monsters and Mother: Tales of Love and Terror. Both are Bram Stoker-nominated anthologies. Her debut novel, The Vein, is available through Dark Matter INK, and her next horror novel, The Threshing Floor, is forthcoming in November 2024, also through INK. Sawtooth is her first novella. When Steph’s not working on her next story, she’s devouring horror, thriller, and even romance books. Or taxiing her teens around town for their sports and social lives. Find her on Instagram/Threads @stephnelsonauthor, and on Twitter @stephdresnelson.