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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.
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. From Wikipedia: "Michael Newton (born 1951) is an American author best known for his work on Don Pendleton's Mack Bolan series. Newton first began work on the Executioner series by co-writing "The Executioner's War Book" with Don Pendleton in 1977. Since then he has been a steady writer for the series with almost 90 entries to his credit, which triples the amount written by creator Don Pendleton. His skills and knowledge of the series have allowed him to be picked by the publishers to write the milestone novels such as #100, #200, and #300. Writing under the pseudonym Lyle Brandt, Michael Newton has also become a popular writer of Western novels. He has written a number of successful non-fiction titles as well, including a book on genre writing (How to Write Action Adventure Novels). His book Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida won the Florida Historical Society's 2002 Rembert Patrick Award for Best Book in Florida History. Newton's "Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology" won the American Library Association's award for Outstanding Reference Work in 2006." Pen names: Lyle Brandt, Don Pendleton, Jack Buchanan Bibiliography available here.
