Silverskin

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>I was so invested in this story that I went to bed dreaming about the characters. Really this book had pretty much everything that I love! - The Book Dragon Blog</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>An abandoned town. A legendary monster. And a hidden evil biding its time ...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Ellie Forth and Oliver Cole have something in common: they're both haunted by the ghosts of their pasts.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Ever since the accidental deaths of her mother and sister Ellie has battled fear. Fear of the unknown fear of life's challenges and worst of all fear that she'll lose everyone else she loves. But when a once-in-a-lifetime Alaskan adventure with her remaining family members lands in her lap she cautiously agrees to go hoping the challenge will rekindle the courage that she feels she's lost.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Oliver Cole's goal on the other hand is simple: outwork outrun or out-busy the shame that still plagues him from his time as a gang member in Anchorage's dark underbelly. The days he spends on his boss's commercial fishing boat are almost long and brutal enough to make him forget ... until Ellie and her surviving family members arrive at his uncle's cabin. The time Oliver spends with the Forths before his wilderness-guide uncle whisks them away to the backcountry is a sharp painful reminder of everything he's not sure he'll ever be good enough to have.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But nothing in the backcountry goes as planned.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After Ellie survives a horrific supernatural encounter deep in the Kenai Peninsula she must team up with Oliver to discover the truth about what happened - and about the creatures she accidentally unleashed on the world. With one terrifying realization after another Ellie's desire for revenge grows while Oliver grapples with both his own demons and his growing feelings for her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And the monsters? They want them broken. And then they want them dead.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Supernatural meets KPop Demon Hunters in this gripping first book in The Portlock Trilogy! Perfect for readers who love character-driven suspense spooky mystery ethereal settings unique monsters low-spice romance and found family themes.</strong></p><p></p><p>*No part of this book was written or designed by AI. From cover to cover it is entirely human-created.</p>