Shadow of silver creek

Elias Thorne was once the best detective in Seattle, until a "wild animal attack" case went cold and cost him his badge. Now a private investigator taking pictures of cheating spouses, Elias receives a cryptic letter from his estranged father in Silver Creek, a dying mining town deep in the Cascades.

The letter contains two things: a plea for help, and a photo of a claw mark that Elias hasn't seen since the night his brother died twenty years ago.

Returning to the town he swore to leave behind, Elias finds his father missing and a fresh corpse in the woods. But the locals-including his childhood sweetheart, now the Sheriff-are closing ranks. As the moon waxes, Elias discovers that the town's founding families share a blood pact that is centuries old, and the "beast" stalking the mountains isn't just an animal. It's a legacy.

And Elias might be next in line.