Watcher of Hallow Wood
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In the winter of 1944, Sergeant Hale and his squad are sent to capture a small, abandoned village deep in the German forests. But what they find waiting in the snow is not the enemy they expected.
Something ancient watches from the trees. Something that knows the evil men do - and punishes it without mercy.
Not all monsters are born from war.
Some were here long before it.
And they never left.
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