Gideon Thorn, still seeking answers to the slaughter of his family when he was two years old, pursues reports of an unearthly flying monster liberated from a southwest Texas silver mine. While hunting the man-eating terror, Thorn becomes mired in a small town's dilemma, caught between a ruthless robber baron and his Pinkertons on one side, and an attractive, idealistic widow on the other. Will he solve the mystery before a living nightmare's massive wings envelop one and all?

From deep in the forest echoes a back-shuddering howl, and they know it’s coming again. Gideon Thorne, still on the hunt for those who murdered his family, must now face an unworldly threat from one dispossessed of what was rightfully his…and there’s no greater foe, man, beast, or the unknown. Michael Newton brings another chilling tale that will leave you breathless.

Some wounds never heal. Some monsters never die. On the eve of Colorado’s statehood, Gideon Thorn follows a trail of blood back to where it all began. Decades ago, when he was just two years old, a savage beast—dismissed by some as a grizzly bear—tore through his family’s homestead, leaving his parents and older brother butchered and Thorn himself marked by a white-streaked scar that never let him forget. Now, settlers are vanishing again. Families wiped out. Bodies devoured. Something has returned to the high country, and Thorn can no longer avoid the place where his life was shattered. Joined by his steadfast mentor Obi Magoro and intrepid newswoman Dinah Pilcher, Thorn must confront the nightmare that birthed his quest for truth—and find out whether the creature that shaped him is just a memory…or a living nightmare waiting in the pines. Hallowed Ground is a harrowing blend of personal reckoning, primal terror, and western mythos—where past and present collide in a final, bloodstained reckoning.

Gideon Thorn investigates a rash of nocturnal attacks involving massive loss of blood and discovers a horrifying pack of predators beyond his personal experience with bizarre and supernatural cases.

Gideon Thorn investigates the disappearance of Dinah Pilcher, his sometime traveling companion, fellow investigator of the occult, and Thorn's would-be biographer. Her disappearance in Arkansas, while investigating a "strange case" of grave robberies, embroils Thorn with a local outlaw clan and practitioners of an ancient religion whose rites purportedly include raising the dead to serve as slaves or instruments of vengeance in the living world they should have left behind.