They escaped 1906. But the past followed them.
On a snowbound Ontario highway, Dan sees a woman and two children standing in the blizzard. Their clothes belong to another century. They have nowhere to go. He stops to help.
Ann says they fled a violent husband. But the year she remembers is 1906-and the world Dan brings them into is 2025.
Their fear is real. So is their bewilderment at things he takes for granted: a warm car, electric lights, a meal beneath the bright signs of a roadside restaurant. Leaving them out in the cold was never an option.
He offers them warmth, shelter, and a chance to begin again. Then comes the feeling that someone is watching. Beyond the windows. At the edge of the woods. Closer each night.
For Dan, a quiet house has long meant an empty one. Now there are voices, shared meals, and people whose safety matters to him. But as ordinary unease gives way to terrifying supernatural horror, the life he is beginning to want becomes the very thing he could lose.
Ann knows what she ran from. Now Dan must face what followed her-and decide how much he is willing to risk for a family he barely knows.
What begins as an intriguing winter mystery deepens into disturbing supernatural horror, as an act of kindness draws a lonely man into a nightmare more than a century in the making.
The cold is familiar. The darkness is familiar. The growing certainty that someone is waiting just beyond the light is something else entirely. And a locked door offers little comfort when you don't understand what you're trying to keep out.
Set against the snowbound roads and dark forests of northern Ontario, Winter Haunt is a supernatural horror thriller about second chances, the courage to protect others, and a past that refuses to let go.
For readers of winter horror novels, atmospheric thrillers, and atmospheric supernatural fiction, this supernatural suspense thriller brings human warmth into chilling darkness.
He brought them in from the cold. He couldn't keep the past outside.
Book One of The Northern Haunt Series.