Dark Woods

One of the country's premier outdoors writers makes his chilling fiction debut. It came out on the night of the hunters. Deputy Frank Vaughn is tracking a strange, wounded beast. But there's only one thing more terrifying than what he's hunting. It's what's hunting him.

Jay C. Kumar has fished, hunted and otherwise explored many of the wild places of North America: everything from fishing for bass in the sweltering heat of Florida's Lake Okeechobee, to sea-kayaking in Maine, to hunting turkeys in Virginia's Appalachian forests, to bottom-fishing the rough waters off Alaska, to climbing the Mount Saint Helens volcano in Washington state. He's the founder of BassFan.com, and is a grandson of the Irish writer Vivian Connell. Learn more about him at www.jayckumar.com.