Reversing the Hunt

They gave her water. They gave her a head start. Then they came to hunt her.

Thirteen-year-old Everly Welch has spent her life hidden in a mountain bunker, learning survival from her former Marine father and Olympic champion mother. But training cannot prepare her for the night armed men tear her family apart.

Abducted and left in an unfamiliar wilderness, Everly has no idea whether her parents are alive. Injured and alone, she must use everything they taught her to survive. A stray dog offers her first comfort. A woman watching from the shadows offers something more dangerous: help.

Riley has survived a broken world by staying hidden, trusting few people, and keeping her distance from other people’s trouble. She knows what happens to those dropped into these mountains. She has watched the hunters return.

This time, their prey is a child.

Protecting Everly means exposing the trails, shelters, and defenses Riley depends on. As armed trackers close in, every choice threatens to turn the girl’s only refuge into another hunting ground.

But Riley knows these mountains. And the hunters are about to discover that someone else knows how to make them afraid.

For readers drawn to the human-hunt suspense of Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous Game and the survival, companionship, and unexpected hope of Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars, Reversing the Hunt explores what happens when staying alive means refusing to leave someone behind.