Shady Bend Road

Scientists Anton Singer and Heinz Kovalt have worked for years to create specimen #8107 a creature featuring the traits of some of the most savage animal predators on the planet. But with Singer dying from cancer the cross-species monster designed to kill American soldiers is now for sale.<p> Wendy Nugent sheriff of Harrison County Nebraska grows suspicious when a government lab springs up on an abandoned farmstead near her own farm in the Blue River Valley in the middle of nowhere. Despite being reassured by a colonel from the Pentagon a representative of Homeland Security and a Princeton scientist that it is simply a federal livestock research lab she doesn't buy it. Nugent tries to investigate only to be rebuffed by scientist Mark Sterns with whom she begins a romantic relationship.<p> Something beyond the normal research is obviously occurring in that compound which sports its own Marine guards and security fences. She is kept in the dark until a powerful storm destroys the lab and unleashes a real terror that threatens her once-quiet county.