When mountain lions learn to hunt like wolves, the Columbia River Gorge becomes a killing ground.
Paratrooper, Quinn Barlow, is guiding climbers up Mount Adams when two black cougars execute a coordinated ambush on vertical rock. Hunting behavior that shouldn’t exist. His client survives. Barely.
As bodies are found across the Gorge, Quinn teams-up with Fish & Wildlife to track the big cats to their lair. But killing the brothers only reveals a more terrifying truth: their mother, a massive female raised by wolves, has been teaching her offspring pack tactics for years. And she’s still out there.
When a federal task force fails to stop her, Quinn faces an impossible choice: let the predator continue hunting humans, or go after the most dangerous animal in North America alone.
From the Campfire Folklore Horror Series comes a thriller grounded in chilling reality. Because cooperative hunting among cougars isn’t just rare. It’s evolutionary. And once learned, it spreads.
For readers who loved The Ruins, The Terror, and Devolution. Pacific Northwest thriller meets natural horror.
