Deep in the frozen heart of the arctic, the world's most feared monster has hidden away for centuries from the prying eyes of mankind. But now a desperate stranger has ventured to this timeless wasteland in search of the monster. Not to hunt or kill him like all other men before him. No, this man has come seeking the monster's help. In the darkened alleyways of Chicago, terrible experiments in bringing the dead back to life are again underway, filling the streets with soulless, undead wretches. And the only one who can stop the dark experiments is the creature who first crossed the threshold...

When tourists are murdered in a resort town in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, FBI Special Agent Angela Wallace is called in to investigate. But what she finds tests her training and sanity, for what she discovers should not exist. Winter Kill is the first book in the ongoing werewolf noir series, The Pack, by Bram Stoker Award winner Mike Oliveri. Book two, Lie with the Dead, is excerpted in this edition.

At the end of book one of Mike Oliveri's werewolf noir series, "Winter Kill," FBI special agent Angela Wallace lay in a hospital bed attempting to make sense of the bloody shootout with drug smugglers that nearly left her dead in the northern mountain range of Minnesota, and the mysterious, reclusive Tyler family that seems to be at the heart of all her questions. "Lie with the Dead" continues Agent Wallace's search for answers, where the trail leads her to a deserted mining town in Nevada and, once again, finds herself fighting for her life against unseen enemies hell-bent on keeping dark...