He thought he was checking out illegal logging in the Idaho mountains-until he found a German Shepherd locked in a frozen cage, staring at him like it had been waiting for exactly one person

of the thing above them.

It had a name now. Stonecross Timber.

And it was afraid of a dog.

Ray told Grant not to move without him.

Grant waited thirty-six hours, which was longer than he wanted and shorter than Ray would have preferred. In that time, the county office received two anonymous calls reporting Grant as unstable. Jenna found a man idling outside continue reading …